London: Printed for G. and W. B. Whittaker, 1824. First edition. Pine-Coffin 792-8; Colbert. The first travelogue by Catherine Govion Broglio Solari (circa 1755-1844), an entertaining narrative about Italy by an author whose biography is filled with so many inconsistencies and ruses that fact and fiction become difficult to differentiate.....
London: John Murray, 1819. First edition. Colbert; Robinson, page 275; Pine-Coffin, page 175; ODNB. The first of two travel narratives by English poet Marianne Baillie (1775-1831), written with a "ladylike attitude to touring" (Robinson), in which she extols the beautiful, but is easily uncomfortable with surroundings to which she is.....
London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Rees, Orme, and Brown; and Edinburgh: A. Constable, 1820. First edition. Colbert; Pine-Coffin 819-3; Robinson, pages 44-45; ODNB. A travel narrative revealing of the adventurous and fearless nature of its author, Maria Graham (1785-1842). In the summer of 1819, she, her husband, and the artist.....
London: Printed for Longman, Hurst, Reese and Orme, 1805. First edition. Pine-Coffin 778-7; Colbert; ODNB. Novelist and poet Cornelia Knight (1757-1837) lived for several years in the 1790s in Rome and other parts of Italy, where she mastered numerous languages, drawing, painting and writing, the latter which she put to.....
London: Printed for Edward and Charles Dilly, 1776. First edition. ESTC T89035; Pine-Coffin 770-4; Robinson, page 186; ODNB. Lady Anna Riggs Miller (1741-81), a wealthy heiress, set off with her husband John Miller in 1770 on an “ideal jaunt” to Italy – travel for travel’s sake - which she recorded.....
London: Longmans, Green, 1873. First edition. Robinson, pages 12-13. ¶ An account of the mountainous region of Northern Italy known as the Dolomites, by the intrepid Amelia B. Edwards (1831-1892), English novelist, poet, journalist, and Egyptologist, as well as a traveler and travel writer. Edwards and her female companion Lucy.....
San Francisco: D. P. Elder and Morgan Shepard, 1902. First privately printed edition, one of 300 copies. ¶ An elaborately and expensively produced account of a extended sojourn by Katharine Putnam Hooker (1849-1935) and her daughter, Marian Osgood Hooker, in Italy. Putnam became well known for her books about Italy.....