Diary of John Evelyn, ESQ., F.R.S.: To Which Are Added a Selection from His Familiar Letters and the Private Correspondence between King Charles I and Sir Edward Nicholas and between Sir Edward Hyde (Afterwards Earl of Clarendon) and Sir Richard Browne, in Four Volumes
New York / London: Charles Scribner's Sons / Bickers and Son, 1906. Hard Cover. Very Good / No Jacket. Item #2290010
A few minor tears to spine head on all four volumes, bookplate on front paste-down endpaper of all four volumes, tissue loose but included in volumes two through four.
cxxxiii, 299; 491; 487; 497 pp. Green boards. Gilt title on spine and top page ridges gilt. Deckled edges. Four volume set. First published in two volumes in 1818. This edition is edited by William Bray, with a new life of the author and preface by Henry B. Wheatley, and includes more illustrations. Volume I: 1620-1648; Volume II: 1648-1685; Volume III: 1685-1706; Volume IV: Miscellaneous Correspondence. John Evelyn, FRS (31 October 1620 – 27 February 1706) was an English writer, gardener and diarist. John Evelyn's diary, or memoir, spanned the period of his adult life from 1640, when he was a student, to 1706, the year he died. He did not write daily at all times. The many volumes provide insight into life and events at a time before regular magazines or newspapers were published, making diaries of greater interest to modern historians than such works might have been at later periods. Evelyn's work covers art, culture and politics, including the execution of Charles I, Oliver Cromwell's rise and eventual natural death, the last Great Plague of London, and the Great Fire of London in 1666. Evelyn's posthumously "rival" diarist, Samuel Pepys, wrote a different kind of diary, covering a much shorter period, 1660–1669, but in much greater depth, within the same era. Over the years, Evelyn's Diary has been overshadowed[how?] by Pepys's chronicles of 17th-century life.[1]
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