Moore, John. The Travel Writings of John Moore. Vol. 1: The Life of John Moore (1820) and A View of Society and Manners in France, Switzerland, and Germany (1779). Ed. Ben P. Robertson. London: Pickering & Chatto, 2014. The Travel Writings of John Moore is a four-volume set that reprints the late-eighteenth-century travel writings of Scottish physician John Moore, who lived from 1729 to 1802. The edition provides a general introduction, four volume introductions, and textual and explanatory notes. A chronology of Moore's life appears in Volume 1, and Volume 4 includes an index for all four volumes. The edition also reproduces eight contemporary images of Moore that are held at the Wellcome Library in London and at the Scottish National Portrait Gallery in Edinburgh. Volume 1: The Life of John Moore (1820) and A View of Society and Manners in France, Switzerland, and Germany (1779) The first volume contains the first half of Moore’s travels on a five-year Grand Tour with the 8th Duke of Hamilton, starting in 1772. This epistolary narrative – some of it real, some of it contrived – relates Moore’s often humorous observations about the people and cultures he encountered along the way. As the travelogue unfolds, Moore describes specific details of conversations with French, Swiss, and German men and women who held a diversity of roles in both the aristocracy and the peasantry. As companion and personal physician to the Duke of Hamilton, Moore was introduced into some of the most prestigious Continental royal society of the time, including the court of Frederick the Great. Also included in this volume is Robert Anderson’s 1820 biography of Moore. Promotional leaflet: Leaflet