John Evelyn and his milieu / essays edited by Frances Harris & Michael Hunter
2003, First Edition. London : British Library. Fine cloth copy in a fine, slightly edge-bumped dust wrapper. Remains well-preserved overall. Item #468508
ISBN: 0712348174
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Physical description; ix, 298 pages : illustrations, maps. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; 'Excuse these impertinences': Evelyn in his Letterbooks / Douglas Chambers -- Evelyn, Inigo Jones, and the collector Earl of Arundel / Edward Chaney -- John Evelyn's bindings / Mirjam Foot -- John Evelyn and his books / Giles Mandelbrote -- John Evelyn and the print / Antony Griffiths -- Sayes court revisited / Mark Laird -- 'A sublime and noble service': Evelyn and the Church of England / John Spurr -- 'Action to the Purpose': Evelyn, Greenwich, and the sick and wounded seamen / Gillian Darley -- John Evelyn: revolutionary / Steven Pincus -- Mary Evelyn and devotional practice / Gillian Wright -- Susanna and her elders: John Evelyn's artistic daughter / Carol Gibson-Wood -- Advice to letter-writers: evidence from four generations of Evelyns / Susan Whyman -- Sir John Evelyn: his grandfather's heir / Edward Gregg -- Their 'own sweet country': the Evelyns in Surrey / Isabel Sullivan. Subjects; John Evelyn 1620-1706. Diarists Great Britain Biography. Authors, English Early modern, 1500-1700 Biography. Great Britain Intellectual life 17th century. Great Britain Court and courtiers History 17th century. Great Britain History Stuarts, 1603-1714 Biography.
Price: €35.00