EVELYN, JOHN. - Diary of... To which are added a selection from his familiar Letters, and the Private Correspondence between King Charles I and Sir Edward Nichols... Edited from the Original Mss. by William Bray... With a Life of the Author by Henry B. Wheatley.
London: Bickers & Son 1906. Four volumes, 8vo, with 31 plates, including an extending pedigree and a map, marbled endpapers, attractively bound by Bickers and Son in red crushed half morocco, red cloth sides, a few minor marks, otherwise a fine set, t.e.g. Kept from his 21st birthday in 1641 until his death in 1706, Evelyn’s Diary is a unique portrait of 17th century life, including accounts of court life and travels on the Continent as well as his friendship with that other great English Diarist, Samuel Pepys.
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