Details

Subject(s)

• Grand tours (Education)—History—18th century [Browse]

Library of Congress genre(s)

• Travel writing [Browse]

Series

• Grand Tour. [More in this series]
• The Grand Tour

Compiled/​Created

1727-1728.

Summary note

The diary contains a full itinerary, with records of each stage of the journey, and of the inns at which Wise stayed, and consists mainly of physical descriptions of cities, with information on the architecture, history and features and the function of principal buildings. There is also much information in particular on large cities including Paris, Tours, Basel, Bern, Geneva, Turin, and especially Strasbourg, for which translations of several earlier guides are included. There are also notes on sites near these cities. While staying at Paris, for example, Wise visited Versailles, Marly, and Saint-Germain-en-Laye. The volume has an index at the end and is written in both English and French, on facing pages.

Notes

AMDigital Reference: Osborn C 284

Original version

Original version: 170 pages ; 22 cm.

Location of originals

Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscripts Library, Yale University

Copyright note

Material sourced from the James Marshall and Marie-Louise Osborn Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.

Language note

English, French.

OCLC

1373886109

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