CORSICA. - BOSWELL (James). An Account of Corsica,... Lot 6

CORSICA. - BOSWELL (James). An Account of Corsica, the journal of a tour to that island ; and memoirs of Pascal Paoli. London, printed for Edward and Charles Dilly [...]. 1769. In-8, 400 pp. of which the first 30 in Roman numerals, spotted fawn calf, ornate ribbed spine; headbands and spinebands restored (period binding). CORRECTED EDITION, the third of this work, published the year after the original. Copper-engraved illustration. Off-text: portrait-frontispiece of Pasquale Paoli by John Lodge after a painting by Henry Bembridge, and a fold-out map of Corsica identical to the one in the original edition; in the text, on the title, a vignette with the arms of the Kingdom of Corsica. "AN ESSENTIAL WITNESS ON CORSICA AT THE TIME OF PAOLI'S GOVERNMENT" presented as "a model utopia [...] where the ancient ideals of liberty, patriotism and virtue live again" (Francis Beretti). Provenance: James Frampton (d. 1855), one-time sheriff of Dorsetshire and colonel of Yeomanry (bookplate vignette). - Magistrate and historian Xavier Versini (triple bookplate, i.e.: his signature on the title and p. xi, then his initials p. xxvi).