Music, Men, and Manners in France and Italy, 1770, Being the Journal Written by Charles Burney, Mus.D. during a Tour through Those Countries Undertaken to Collect Material for a General History of Music (The Folio Society)

245 pp. Frontispiece portrait of author, 14 plates in text comprising reproductions of 17 illustrations, two-panel map reproduced from a 1786 original. The journal of music historian Charles Burney, who was a close friend of composer Joseph Haydn. Samuel Johnson enjoyed the work: "Dr. Burney published an account of his tour ... which was extremely well received, and deemed by the best judges so good a model for travellers who were inclined to give a description of what they had seen or observed, that Dr. Johnson professedly imitated it in his own Tour of the Hebrides, saying, 'I had that clever dog Burney's Musical Tour in my eye.'" (Pinnock, 'Memoir of Dr Burney')