Samuel Pepys : the unequalled self
2002, First Edition. London : Viking. Fine cloth copy in a near fine, slightly edge-dulled dust wrapper. Remains well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and especially sharp-cornered. Item #477010
ISBN: 0670885681
Physical description; xxxix, 499 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations, maps, portraits ; 24 cm. Notes; Includes bibliographical references and index. Contents; Pepys Family Tree – Map 1. The London Dwellings of Samuel Pepys – Map 2. Huntingdon, Hinchingbrooke and Brampton – pt. 1. 1633-1660. 1. The Elected Son. 2. A Schoolboy's War: Huntingdon and St. Paul's. 3. Cambridge and Clerking. 4. Love and Pain. 5. A House in Axe Yard. 6. A Diary – pt. 2. 1660-1669. 7. Changing Sides. 8. Families. 9. Work. 10. Jealousy. 11. Death and Plague. 12. War. 13. Marriage. 14. The King. 15. The Fire. 16. Three Janes. 17. The Secret Scientist. 18. Speeches and Stories. 19. Surprise and Disorder – pt. 3. 1669-1703. 20. After the Diary. 21. Public and Private Life. 22. Plots. 23. Travels for the Stuarts. 24. Whirligigs. 25. The Jacobite. 26. A Journey to be Made. Subjects; Pepys, Samuel (1633-1703) – Biography. Diarists – Great Britain – Biography. Statesmen – Great Britain – Biography. Authors, English – Early modern, 1500-1700 – Biography. Cabinet officers – Great Britain – Biography. Great Britain – History – Stuarts, 1603-1714 – Biography. Great Britain – Social life and customs – 17th century.
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