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Observations, anecdotes, and characters of books and men : collected in conversation
Title
Observations, anecdotes, and characters of books and men : collected in conversation, 1731-174.
Publication
Marlborough, Wiltshire : Adam Matthew Digital, 2009.
Physical Description
1 online resource.
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Notes
AMDigital Reference: Osborn FC 113
Beinecke Rare Books and Manuscripts Library, Yale University
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Summary
Spence's anecdotes have been published several times. The Osborn edition of the Observations arranges them under three subject headings: anecdotes by or about Alexander Pope, remarks about other British subjects, and conversations and anecdotes from Spence's three continental tours. The last group is of great interest for study of the Grand Tour. Spence's sources and subjects are too numerous to list completely here but include some of the foremost writers and antiquarians in eighteenth-century Italy: Francesco Scipione, Marchese di Maffei; Francesco de' Ficoroni; Edward Holdsworth; James Grant; the unidentified Mr. T.; Antonio Cocchi; Tommaso Crudeli; Baron Philip von Stosch; Margaret Rolle, Lady Walpole; Sebastiano Bianchi; Rosalba Carriera; et al.
Variant and related titles
Grand tour.
Format
Books / Online
Language
English
Added to Catalog
October 25, 2023
Series
The Grand Tour
Subjects
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Adam Matthew Digital (Firm), digitiser.
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