An Englishman in Paris, 1803: The Journal of Bertie Greatheed

First edition, first impression.  xxiv, 194pp, with monochrome plate frontispiece and several further monochrome plate illustrations interleaved in text.  Red cloth boards with gilt lettering to spine.  8vo.  Cloth a little rounded at corners and spine ends.  Upper text block edge lightly toned. Internally neat, clean, bright and tight.  In its original worn and torn dust wrapper with some small areas of loss.  Dust wrapper now protected in an archival-quality Mylar sleeve, fitted without the use of tape or adhesives.

The journals of a member of the English gentry visiting Paris in the Napoleonic era.  There are several similar journals recording travels in revolutionary France but that of Bertie Greatheed is distinctive for two reasons: first, as a budding artist, he visited the Lourve just as its major collections were being amassed and secondly, as a friend of a French family, her was permitted to stay in Paris as a privileged prisoner.  His diary of the period May to October 1803 is perhaps the only extant diary of such prisoners in Paris.