The Diary of Baron Waldstein. A Traveller in Elizabethan England. - GROOS, G.W. [ED.|TRANSL.].
A Traveller in Elizabethan England.
KORTE INHOUD
The Diary of the Young Czech, Baron Waldstein, admirably translated and annotated, describes the tour he made in England in 1600. It is very like those of Hentzner in 1598 and Platter in 1599, and describes much the same sights: Canterbury Cathedral, Westminster Abbey, Old St. Paul's (with Hatton's recent tomb the most spectacular); Whitehall, the Tower, Greenwich; Oxford and Cambridge; Theobalds, Burghley House, Holdenby; above all the Queen herself, to whom Waldstein was presented and upon whom she made the usual impression. Greatly impressed by the wealth of England, the young man thought the colleges much richer than they were, as also the Archbishop of Canterbury, whose revenue's came mainly from tithes, not rents, Beautifully produced and illustrated, the book has been enabled to be published by a subsidy from Saudi Arabia. Such is our time. A. L. Rowse. History Today.
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1981Uitgever: Thames & Hudson180 paginasTaal: EngelsISBN-10: 0500012547ISBN-13: 9780500012543Koop dit boek tweedehands
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Original publisher's brown paper-covered boards, gilt title spine, gilt ornament frontcover, pictorial dustjacket, large 8vo: pictorial endpapers, frontispiece, 184pp., 48 illustrations [4 coloured], map og the tour, authors note, index. Very fine copy., from the Latin diary (in the Vatican library) of this Moravian baron who visited England in the summer of 1600 while doing his Grand Tour. London, Thames & Hudson Ltd. 1981 [Auteur: GROOS, G.W. [ED.] [Jaar: 1981] [Titel: The Diary of Baron Waldstein. A Tra...
