In the original leather covered hardcover, a rare Dublin 1789 first edition (first published in London 1788), of this very interesting book describing the sights encountered during 'Travels Through Italy in the Year 1785', in the form of a series of 115 letters written as the journey progressed, by the French Abbé, Charles Marguerite Jean Baptiste Mercier-Dupaty (1746-1788), and translated from the French edition into English by an English Gentleman. 

This copy carries the armorial bookplate of "George Gray of Graymount", probably Major George Gray (1814-1879), J.P., High Sheriff of County Antrim, but it could just possibly have been his grandfather of the same name and address, Graymount House is situated at Greencastle, County Antrim, Northern Ireland.

Please Note: the actual printed text is clear and not as might appear in some of my somewhat fuzzy photo's. 

The Letters are variously from: - Avignon. - Toulon. - Nice. - Monaco. - Genoa. - Lucca. - Pisa. - Florence. - Rome. - Tivoli. - Frascati. - Naples. - Portici. - Pæstum. - Pompeia (see photo's 8, 9, 10, 11 & 12 above). 

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On Sale is a rare, leather-bound, 1789 Dublin first edition of * Travels Through Italy, in a Series of Letters; Written in the Year 1785 * by The Abbé Dupaty, translated by an English Gentleman, printed by M. Mills for G. Burnett, P. Byrne, and J. Moore, Dublin, [first published in London 1788 - first published in Dublin 1789] this one is dated 1789 to the title page (mdcclxxxix) with no other editions listed, size approximately 8-1/2 inches x 5-1/2 inches, with xii + 403 pages.

The original leather covered hardcover is worn on the extremities and fully split along both spine-edges with some losses to the leather in those areas, the spine leather is fixed to the book's spine and has some cracking and splitting, lacking the spine title panel with title still legible from stamped impression, variously age-toned and soiled with surface marks and scuffs, the top one of the three string hinges to the front has parted with the other two still holding the front cover for now but cannot guess how long two-hundred-and-thirty-plus year old string will hold, and the rear cover is attached with all three string hinges holding for now (see photos 1, 2, 3, 4 & 5). Inside is complete apart from lacking most of the rear free-endpaper, the front free-endpaper appears to be adhered to the front fixed endpaper (presumably before the visible bookplate was applied - photo 6), both endpapers attached to the covers but separated from the rest of the leaves, else generally binding tight with pages well attached, has previous owner's applied armorial bookplate for "George Gray - Greymount" to the front endpaper as mentioned above (photo 6 again), no other writing or graffiti, a small number of corners had been turned, has a v-shaped blind tear to the middle of page 1 extending to beneath the line above the second "E" of "Letter I" and to the "on" of first paragraph line 2 (see photo 18), a small hole to the fore-edge margin of leaf of p121 and a small paper-flaw hole to bottom margin of leaf of p231, else generally pages not torn, variable extensive off-setting and foxing and toning and dust-marking throughout so possibly became damp at some stage, otherwise reasonably tidy inside, a rare and interesting item sold as a reading / rebinding copy and offered at a low price to account for the above.

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