BOSWELL (James). An Account of Corsica, the journal... Lot 15

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; head and spine restored (period binding). CORRECTED EDITION, the third of this work, published the year after the original. Copper-engraved illustration. Outside 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. Provenance: James Frampton (d. 1855), one-time sheriff of Dorsetshire and colonel of Yeomanry (bookplate vignette). - Xavier Versini (triple bookplate, i.e. his signature on the title and p. xi, then his initials on p. xxvi).