Remarks on Several Parts of Italy in the Years, 1701, 1702, 1703.

London: Jacob Tonson, 1705. First Edition. Hardcover. Good. Complete with the half-title. William Gosse's copy of Addison's enormously popular account of travel through Italy, a classic in the 18th century Englishman Grand Tourist genre. The preface begins: "There is certainly no place in the World where a man may travel with greater pleasure and advantage than in Italy." First edition, with the usual error of p. 125 misprinted 215. Full contemporary calf; Cambridge style; front and rear boards coming loose. Early armorial bookplate to front pastedown and bookplate of Edmund William Gosse to front free endpaper. Clean readible text.