The Complete Diary of Samuel Pepys: Tercentenary Boxed Set (12 volumes)
Language: English
Published by HarperCollinsPublishers/Harper Collins & University of California Press, London, Berkeley, Los Angeles, 2000
- First Edition
- Softcover
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2000. First U.S paperback edition. 12 volume set and slipcase. Volumes 1-10 are the diary, volume 11 is an index, and volume 12 is a 'Pepys Anthology'. Slight toning to the spines of volumes 4,5,6. Browning to the top edge of all volumes, adjacent to the spine. very slight crease down the spine of volume 1. Otherwise the set is in excellent condition with no inscriptions. Original slipcase also in excellent condition. PLEASE NOTE: Heavy set so extra will be needed for postage for non-UK customers. "The Diary was first published in abbreviated form in 1825. A succession of new editions, re-issues and selections, published in the Victorian era, made the Diary one of the best-known books, and Pepys one of the best-known figures, of English history. But in none of these versions – not even in the Wheatley, which for long stood as the standard edition – was there a reliable, still less a full text, and in none of them was there a commentary with any claim to completeness. This edition was in preparation for many years, and remains the first in which the entire Diary is printed and in which an attempt has been made at systematic comment on it. The primary aim of the principal editors was to see that the Diary was presented in a manner suitable to the historical and literary importance of its contents. At the same time they had in mind the interests of the wide public of English-speaking people to whom the diarist himself, rather than the importance of what he wrote, is what matters.".…
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- Title
- The Complete Diary of Samuel Pepys: Tercentenary Boxed Set (12 volumes)
- Author
- Pepys, Samuel (edited By Robert Latham & William Matthews)
- Publisher
- HarperCollinsPublishers/Harper Collins & University of California Press, London, Berkeley, Los Angeles
- Publication year
- 2000
- Condition
- Very Good Plus
- Binding
- Soft cover
- Language
- English
- ISBN 10
- 0007161093
- ISBN 13
- 9780007161096
- Edition
- First U.S. Edition
- Dimensions
- 8.5'' Tall
- Seller catalogs
- British History, Literature
Hot on the heels of the award-winning biography by Clare Tomalin, the complete 11-volume edition of the Diary of Samuel Pepys in an exclusive slipcase
The Diary was first published in abbreviated form in 1825. A succession of new editions, re-issues and selections, published in the Victorian era, made the Diary one of the best-known books, and Pepys one of the best-known figures, of English history. But in none of these versions – not even in the Wheatley, which for long stood as the standard edition – was there a reliable, still less a full text, and in none of them was there a commentary with any claim to completeness. This edition was in preparation for many years, and remains the first in which the entire Diary is printed and in which an attempt has been made at systematic comment on it.
The primary aim of the principal editors was to see that the Diary was presented in a manner suitable to the historical and literary importance of its contents. At the same time they had in mind the interests of the wide public of English-speaking people to whom the diarist himself, rather than the importance of what he wrote, is what matters.
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About the Author
Robert Latham, CBE, MA, FBA was born in Audley, Staffordshire. Educated at Cambridge, he was Reader in History in the University of London at Royal Holloway College from 1947 to 1968 when he went to the University of Toronto as Professor of History. From 1970 he was a Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge, where, as Pepys Librarian until 1982, he had charge of the remarkable collection of books, prints and manuscripts which Pepys left to his old College. He devoted the greater part of his life to the study of the Diary, and died in January 1995.
Linnet Latham, his wife, worked with her husband during the compilation of the Index and Companion volumes of the definitive edition of The Diary of Samuel Pepys.
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