{"product_id":"a-journey-into-england-paul-hentzner-early-reprint-edition","title":"A Journey into England, Paul Hentzner — Early Reprint Edition","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublication:\u003c\/b\u003e London, [R. and J. Dodsley], c. 1761-1771\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormatting:\u003c\/b\u003e Small 8vo, unpaginated.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Report:\u003c\/b\u003e Fair. Bound in later plain blue paper wrappers with a darker paper spine backing and manuscript titling in ink to the upper cover. The wrappers exhibit heavy wear, featuring significant chipping, tearing, and loss, particularly along the lower and fore-edges, which exposes the underlying card. The spine is heavily rubbed with minor losses at the extremities. The binding remains largely secure despite the external fragility. Internally, the text block displays slight cockling and minor creasing to the corners, with a faint dampstain visible at the lower edge of the title page. The pages are otherwise generally clean, retaining good brightness, though exhibiting occasional light marginal toning and scattered foxing throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eCatalogue Note:\u003c\/b\u003e This intriguing copy presents an early reprint of Horace Walpole's acclaimed 1757 Strawberry Hill Press translation of Paul Hentzner's Elizabethan travelogue. Based on the typography, the presence of the long 's' (ſ), and the specific title page layout stating \"First Printed in the Year 1757\" without a publisher's imprint, this slim volume was almost certainly extracted from a mid-18th-century edition of Robert Dodsley's \u003ci\u003eFugitive Pieces on Various Subjects\u003c\/i\u003e (published in multiple editions between 1761 and 1771).\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFollowing its extraction, a previous owner evidently bound the text block into these bespoke blue paper wrappers, carefully hand-lettering the title onto the upper cover. The dedication page prominently features Horace Walpole's address to Lord Willoughby of Parham. Hentzner's account remains a vital primary source for late sixteenth-century English social history. Scarcity on the open market in this extracted, bespoke wrapper format makes it a unique, working oddity for collectors of Walpole and Elizabethan history.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003ePaul Hentzner's \u003ci\u003eA Journey into England\u003c\/i\u003e offers a fascinating, firsthand glimpse into the world of Elizabethan England. Originally written in Latin following Hentzner's 1598 tour as a travelling tutor, the itinerary famously records vivid observations of Queen Elizabeth I at Greenwich Palace, the bustling theatres of London, and the brutal sports of bear-baiting. First translated into English in 1757 by Horace Walpole at his renowned Strawberry Hill Press, this work remains an indispensable and highly entertaining contemporary record of late sixteenth-century English life, architecture, and courtly customs.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Broadhursts Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":54576953295187,"sku":"5043","price":60.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0960\/1469\/6787\/files\/20260809_193647.jpg?v=1786615019","url":"https:\/\/broadhurstsbooks.com\/products\/a-journey-into-england-paul-hentzner-early-reprint-edition","provider":"Broadhursts Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}