Svedenstierna's Tour of Great Britain, 1802-3 : The Travel Diary of an Industrial Spy

xx, 192pp. Brown cloth-covered boards with gilt lettering to spine (boards clean, square and sharp). Internally neat, clean, bright and tight. In its original dust jacket (very slightly bumped along upper edge). A reissue of Eric Th Svedenstierna's account of his travels through England and Scotland in 1802 and 1803 in which he recorded the industrial activities he witnesses - today he would be called an industrial spy. Originally published in Sweden in 1811. With a new introduction. 8vo.