8vo. In two volumes. [2], xvi, 371pp; xv, [1], 381pp, [1]. Contemporary richly gilt-tooled green morocco, A.E.G. Lightly rubbed and marked, with surface wear to head and foot of dulled spines. Later armorial bookplates of Ronald Shukburgh Capron to FEPs, inked gift inscription to blank fly-leaf of Vol. I: 'J. A. G. Loughborough, from his sincere friend W. W. Haywood, On his leaving you xmas 1846', scattered spotting

A revised edition of novelist, planter, and politician William Thomas Beckford's (1760-1844) popular travelogue recounting his soujorns in Italy, Spain, and Portugal. Drawn from his own experiences in self-exile from British society, the letters within paint vivid pictures of Italian society and manners.