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It has been described as “one of the best biographies in the English language.”
Desmond MacCarthy wrote of it in the Sunday Times that it ” rivals in interest the Diary itself.” Though the first of a series, this volume is complete in itself-reconstructing
Pepys’s life and times from the vast collection of papers which this remarkable man left behind.
Sixteen years ago Dr. Bryant took over the papers of the two Pepysian scholars-the late Mr. H. B. Wheatley and the late Dr. J. R. Tanner-who had successively essayed this unfinished task. In the course of it he has been through the whole of Pepys’s
unpublished MSS. in the Bodleian Library. Many of these, together with unprinted passages of the Diary, have been used in this volume to tell the full story of Pepys’s work and the stranger one of his married life.
The result, though a work of meticulous scholarship, is as thrilling as any novel.
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Bound in ivory cloth with gilt titling on a black panel to the spine. Good dustjacket with a little scuffing to corners and top and bottom of spine and a little marking to back cover. Book still had a bookseller’s label ‘Barker & Howard, Fenchchurch Street, London’ at the bottom right of the inside front cover. A little tanning to the edges and pages, but book is still tight and clean throughout. Overall in very good condition. Hardcover. Published by Reprint Society London 1952
| Weight | 417 kg |
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