The origins of the grand tour: the travels of Robert Montagu, Lord Mandeville 1649-1654 , William Hammond 1655-1658 , Banaster Maynard 1660-1663

by Michael G. Brennan

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London: Hakluyt Society, 2004. Large 8vo, pp. xvii, 1 , 331, 1 ; 49 figures in the text; a fine copy in a fine dust jacket. Issued as no. 14 in the Hakluyt Society's Third Series. The long-term English fascination with the Grand Tour was firmly rooted in the mid-Tudor and early Stuart periods. Such travels were usually prompted by one of three reasons: the practical needs of diplomacy, the aesthetic allure of cultural tourism, and the expediencies of

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