The diary of John Evelyn : with an introduction and notes

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The diary of John Evelyn : with an introduction and notes

edited by Austin Dobson

（Cambridge library collection, . British and Irish history, seventeenth and eighteenth centuries）

Cambridge University Press, 2015

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  • v. 1 : pbk
  • v. 2 : pbk
  • v. 3 : pbk

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Reprint. Originally published: London : Macmillan, 1906

Includes index

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: set ISBN 9781108078825

Description

The Stuart writer and gardener John Evelyn (1620-1706), whose two-volume Sylva is also reissued in this series, kept a diary from the age of eleven, and in the 1680s began to compile this memoir from his records. It was first published in 1818 in an edition by the antiquarian William Bray; this three-volume version of 1906 was edited by Austin Dobson (1840-1921), the author and poet who also wrote the volume on Henry Fielding in the 'English Men of Letters' series, among many other literary biographies. In an extensive preface, Dobson explains his reasons for revisiting a work which had already received much editorial attention, and his introduction gives a short biography of its author. The work begins with Evelyn's own memoir of his early life: regular entries commence in 1637, when he was a student at Oxford, and conclude a few weeks before his death in 1706.

Table of Contents

  • Volume 1: Preface
  • Introduction
  • The diary, 1620-46
  • Appendix 1. Volume 2: The diary, 1647-76
  • Appendices 2-6. Volume 3: The diary, 1677-1706
  • Appendix 7
  • General index.
Volume

v. 1 : pbk ISBN 9781108078832

Description

The Stuart writer and gardener John Evelyn (1620-1706), whose two-volume Sylva is also reissued in this series, kept a diary from the age of eleven, and in the 1680s began to compile this memoir from his records. It was first published in 1818 in an edition by the antiquarian William Bray; this three-volume version of 1906 was edited by Austin Dobson (1840-1921), the author and poet who also wrote the volume on Henry Fielding in the 'English Men of Letters' series, among many other literary biographies. In an extensive preface, Dobson explains his reasons for revisiting a work which had already received much editorial attention, and his introduction gives a short biography of its author. Volume 1 begins with Evelyn's own memoir of his early life: regular entries commence in 1637, when he was a student at Oxford, and end in France in 1646.

Table of Contents

  • Preface
  • Introduction
  • The diary, 1620-46
  • Appendix 1.
Volume

v. 3 : pbk ISBN 9781108078856

Description

The Stuart writer and gardener John Evelyn (1620-1706), whose two-volume Sylva is also reissued in this series, kept a diary from the age of eleven, and in the 1680s began to compile this memoir from his records. It was first published in 1818 in an edition by the antiquarian William Bray; this three-volume version of 1906 was edited by Austin Dobson (1840-1921), the author and poet who also wrote the volume on Henry Fielding in the 'English Men of Letters' series, among many other literary biographies. In an extensive preface, Dobson explains his reasons for revisiting a work which had already received much editorial attention, and his introduction gives a short biography of its author. Volume 3 covers the period from 1677, including the death of Charles II and the Glorious Revolution, and ending with notes made a few weeks before Evelyn's death in 1706.

Table of Contents

  • The diary, 1677-1706
  • Appendix 7
  • General index.

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