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Author :Mary Elizabeth Jane Hughes Publisher :Scala Arts Publishers Incorporated ISBN 13 :9781857599534 Total Pages :0 pages Book Rating :4.5/5 (995 download)
Book Synopsis The Pepys Library by : Mary Elizabeth Jane Hughes
Download or read book The Pepys Library written by Mary Elizabeth Jane Hughes and published by Scala Arts Publishers Incorporated. This book was released on 2015 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samuel Pepys's Library, as famous in his own lifetime as it is now, was willed by Pepys to Magdalene, the college he had attended in the 1650s. It finally arrived in 1724 to be housed in a handsome new building. A remarkable collection of some 3,000 items, the library includes medieval manuscripts and early printed books by Caxton and Wynkyn de Worde; a naval collection, reflecting Pepys's role as Secretary to the Admiralty; works by Pepys's contemporaries and members of the Royal Society, including Newton's Principia Mathematica; and an unrivalled array of ephemera - letters, playbills and invitations. Alongside the Pepys Library, Magdalene has an impressive historic collection, housed in the beautiful Old Library rooms. Evolving from a series of major benefactions to the college across nearly 500 years, combined with the books routinely acquired for the use of students and scholars in the past, the Old Library contains medieval manuscripts, incunabula, prints and papers, as well as the ancient records of the college. Contents: Preface; Introduction; The Library of Samuel Pepys; The Pepys Building; Pepys the Collector; The Diary; Furnishing a Library; The Old Library: Heart of the College; Building a Collection; The Treasures of the Old Library; Special Collections; Objects in the Collections; The Magdalene College Archives; The Work of the Historic Libraries: - Exhibitions, - Conservation, - Scholars and Readers; List of (Fellow) Librarians.
Book Synopsis The Diary of Samuel Pepys ... by : Samuel Pepys
Download or read book The Diary of Samuel Pepys ... written by Samuel Pepys and published by . This book was released on 1900 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Diary of Samuel Pepys by : Samuel Pepys
Download or read book The Diary of Samuel Pepys written by Samuel Pepys and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 462 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis The Pepys Ballads by : Pepys Library
Download or read book The Pepys Ballads written by Pepys Library and published by D. S. Brewer. This book was released on 1987 with total page 410 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Book Synopsis Samuel Pepys and His Books by : Kate Loveman
Download or read book Samuel Pepys and His Books written by Kate Loveman and published by Oxford University Press, USA. This book was released on 2015 with total page 327 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "This study uses [Pepys's] surviving papers to examine reading practices, collecting, and the exchange of information in the late 17th century"--Back cover.
Book Synopsis The Diary of Samuel Pepys by : Samuel Pepys
Download or read book The Diary of Samuel Pepys written by Samuel Pepys and published by . This book was released on 2020-04-14 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samuel Pepys gives a unique first hand account of life during the Great Plague of London and the Great Fire of London. Pepys stayed in London while many of the wealthy fled the city in the face of the plague. His careful observation and interest in the details of people's lives as well as the events of the time are unparalleled.
Book Synopsis Catalogue of the Pepys Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge by : Pepys Library
Download or read book Catalogue of the Pepys Library at Magdalene College, Cambridge written by Pepys Library and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 1978 with total page 214 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Second volume in two-volume catalogue of Pepys's outstanding collection of 17c ballads. The Pepys ballad collection is the largest surviving collection of English ballads printed in London in the seventeenth century, and is an outstanding source of English popular culture of the period. Pepys himself grouped the ballads into subjects, but a proper catalogue has long been needed by scholars, and this complex and difficult task has at last been completed. As a result, the full riches of the collection, already available in facsimile*, are now properly accessible. The second part of the catalogue consists of the indexes. Titles and sub-titles are indexed together, as these are often interchangeable. First lines and refrains provide text indexes; tunes and music are a guide to the musical element; and imprints, licensing information and authors enable the printing history to be reconstructed. The Pepys Ballads: Facsimile Vols. I-V 085991 256 6, 450.00/$190.00
Book Synopsis The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Vol. 1 by : Samuel Pepys
Download or read book The Diary of Samuel Pepys, Vol. 1 written by Samuel Pepys and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1970-07 with total page 520 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1660s represent a turning point in English history, and for the main events - the Restoration, the Dutch War, the Great Plague, the Fire of London - Pepys provides a definitive eyewitness account. Along with lively descriptions of his socializing, his amorous entanglements, his theater-going & music-making. Unequaled for its frankness, high spirits & sharp observations, the diary is both a literary masterpiece & a marvelous portrait of 17th-century life. Acclaimed by 'The Times' as "one of the glories of contemporary English publishing" and by Sir Arthur Bryant as "complete perfection", the Latham and Matthews edition remains the authoritative text and provides the source for this magnificent Folio Society publication.
Book Synopsis The Curious World of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn by : Margaret Willes
Download or read book The Curious World of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn written by Margaret Willes and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2017-09-19 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An intimate portrait of two pivotal Restoration figures during one of the most dramatic periods of English history Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn are two of the most celebrated English diarists. They were also extraordinary men and close friends. This first full portrait of that friendship transforms our understanding of their times. Pepys was earthy and shrewd, while Evelyn was a genteel aesthete, but both were drawn to intellectual pursuits. Brought together by their work to alleviate the plight of sailors caught up in the Dutch wars, they shared an inexhaustible curiosity for life and for the exotic. Willes explores their mutual interests—diary-keeping, science, travel, and a love of books—and their divergent enthusiasms, Pepys for theater and music, Evelyn for horticulture and garden design. Through the richly documented lives of two remarkable men, Willes revisits the history of London and of England in an age of regicide, revolution, fire, and plague to reveal it also as a time of enthralling possibility.
Book Synopsis The Illustrated Pepys by : Samuel Pepys
Download or read book The Illustrated Pepys written by Samuel Pepys and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1978-01-01 with total page 260 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated version of selected passages from Pepys' diary between 1660 and 1669, showing his robust enjoyment of both his public and private lives
Book Synopsis Pleasing Mr Pepys by : Deborah Swift
Download or read book Pleasing Mr Pepys written by Deborah Swift and published by Headline Accent. This book was released on 2017-09-28 with total page 399 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Perfect for fans of Philippa Gregory, Alison Weir, Anne O'Brien and Elizabeth Chadwick, Deborah Swift brings a unique period in history to vivid, fascinating life in her acclaimed Pepys trilogy. 'Laced with emotional intensity and drama, Pleasing Mr Pepys . . . (has) an intricate plot that features red herrings, unexpected twists, and surprises that will take readers on a very delightful ride' Readers' Favorite 'Deb Willet, Elizabeth Pepys's maid and the object of Samuel Pepys's attentions, is finally given centre-stage after 350 years, and her tale was worth waiting for. This is exceptional story-telling' L. C. TYLER From acclaimed historical novelist Deborah Swift, Pleasing Mr Pepys is the story of diarist Samuel Pepys' London, vibrantly told through the eyes of his maid. .................................................. Deb Willet is desperate to escape her domineering aunt and takes a position as companion to Elisabeth Pepys, Samuel's wife. Deb believes it will give her the respectability and freedom she craves - but it proves far more complicated than she could ever have imagined. London is still in ruins from the Great Fire. Although Charles II has been restored to the throne, there is the prospect of war with the Dutch - the world's great sea power of the era. In the midst of this tumult strides Samuel Pepys, diarist and man of note. Pepys' influence in Restoration London means that the Dutch are keen to get their hands on his secrets - even if that means murder, espionage and blackmail to get them. Deb is soon caught up in a web of deception and double-dealing. And with Mr Pepys' attentions turned towards her, there's a lot more than treason at stake... Selling other people's secrets is a dangerous game... .................................................. Readers can't get enough of Deborah's VIBRANT and IMMERSIVE tales: 'Deborah Swift has produced a remarkable work of historical fiction . . . Swift spins an excellent tale. The characters, too are just fabulous and utterly believable' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 'Having read all Deborah Swift's novels, this is her usual, beautifully atmospheric rendition of an interesting time in 17th century England' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 'What an excellent novel! Superb story telling . . . I highly recommend Pleasing Mr Pepys and very much look forward to a sequel' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ 'This book is an exciting thriller, a real page turner. I read it in a couple of days I was so absorbed in the development of the plot . . . Go out and buy it' ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ ⭐ Don't miss Deborah Swift's other enthralling tales of Samuel Pepys - A Plague of Mr Pepys and Entertaining Mr Pepys - OUT NOW!
Book Synopsis The Great Fire of London by : Samuel Pepys
Download or read book The Great Fire of London written by Samuel Pepys and published by Penguin UK. This book was released on 2015-03-19 with total page 54 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 'With one's face in the wind you were almost burned with a shower of Firedrops' A selection from Pepys' startlingly vivid and candid diary, including his famous account of the Great Fire Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions.
Book Synopsis The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete by : Samuel Pepys
Download or read book The Diary of Samuel Pepys — Complete written by Samuel Pepys and published by Good Press. This book was released on 2019-11-20 with total page 2874 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Samuel Pepys was an English diarist and naval administrator whose private diary that Pepys kept from 1660 until 1669 (yet first published in the 19th century) is one of the most important primary sources for the English Restoration period. Besides personal revelations like court intrigue, gossip, living conditions, weather, diet, counterfeiting, public hangings, it also contains eyewitness accounts of great events, such as the Great Plague of London, the Second Dutch War, and the Great Fire of London.
Book Synopsis Libraries, Books, and Collectors of Texts, 1600-1900 by : Annika Bautz
Download or read book Libraries, Books, and Collectors of Texts, 1600-1900 written by Annika Bautz and published by Routledge Studies in Cultural History. This book was released on 2018 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- List of Figures -- Acknowledgements -- Contributors -- Introduction -- PART I Renaissance Collectors -- 1 Building a Library Without Walls: The Early Years of the Bodleian Library -- 2 Universal Knowledge and Self-Fashioning: Cardinal Bernardino Spada's Collection of Books -- 3 'A Paradise & Cabinet of Rarities': Thomas Browne, His Library, and Communities of Collecting in Seventeenth-Century Norfolk -- 4 Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn: A 'Collecting Friendship' as Told Through a Re-evaluation of Manuscript PL 2237 and Print Album PL 2062 in the Pepys Library, Magdalene College Cambridge -- PART II Gentlemen and Their Libraries From the Seventeenth to the Nineteenth Century -- 5 'Ye Best Tast of Books & Learning of Any Other Country Gentn': The Library of Thomas Mostyn of Gloddaith, c.1676-1692 -- 6 Fashioning a Gentleman's Library: Displaying the Cottonian Collection, 1791-1816 -- 7 "He Was Always Fond of Books": John Couch Adams's Genesis as an Academic Collector -- PART III Beyond Mere Records of Collecting: On Book Catalogues -- 8 From Francis Bacon's Historia Literarum to Samuel Johnson's Literary History: The Catalogus Bibliothecae Harleianae (1743-1745) -- 9 Booksellers' Catalogues and Readership in the Luso-Brazilian World -- 10 Reading in the Provinces: Plymouth Public Library's Nineteenth-Century Catalogues -- PART IV Bibliomania -- 11 Satire and the Bibliomania in Early Nineteenth-Century Britain -- 12 The 'Fancy for Fine Printing': Collecting Whittaker's Golden Magna Carta -- 13 Blurred Lines in the History of Domestic Libraries in the Age of Dibdin's Bibliomania -- Index
Download or read book Pepys's Ghost written by Edwin Emerson and published by . This book was released on 1899 with total page 172 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Samuel Pepys written by Claire Tomalin and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2007-12-18 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For a decade, beginning in 1660, an ambitious young London civil servant kept an astonishingly candid account of his life during one of the most defining periods in British history. In Samuel Pepys, Claire Tomalin offers us a fully realized and richly nuanced portrait of this man, whose inadvertent masterpiece would establish him as the greatest diarist in the English language. Against the backdrop of plague, civil war, and regicide, with John Milton composing diplomatic correspondence for Oliver Cromwell, Christopher Wren drawing up plans to rebuild London, and Isaac Newton advancing the empirical study of the world around us, Tomalin weaves a breathtaking account of a figure who has passed on to us much of what we know about seventeenth-century London. We witness Pepys’s early life and education, see him advising King Charles II before running to watch the great fire consume London, learn about the great events of the day as well as the most intimate personal details that Pepys encrypted in the Diary, follow him through his later years as a powerful naval administrator, and come to appreciate how Pepys’s singular literary enterprise would in many ways prefigure our modern selves. With exquisite insight and compassion, Samuel Pepys captures the uniquely fascinating figure whose legacy lives on more than three hundred years after his death.
Book Synopsis The Diary of Samuel Pepys by : Samuel Pepys
Download or read book The Diary of Samuel Pepys written by Samuel Pepys and published by . This book was released on 1947 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
