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Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys, the Diary Deciphered by J. Smith, With a Life and Notes by Richard Lord Braybrooke
Diary and Correspondence of Samuel Pepys the Diary Deciphered by J Smith With a Life and Notes by Richard Lord Braybrooke Author:Samuel Pepys General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1854 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: NEW LIBRARY EDITION, WITH PORTRAITS, OF PEPYS' DIARY AND CORRESPONDENCE. Now ready, elegantly printed, in Four Volumes, dtmy octavo, a new and improved Library Edition, including all the late important MS. Addition!, and upwards of Two Hundred additional Notes, and Letters, Index, j-c., price 10. 6d. per Volume, handsomely bound, of the DIARY AND CORRESPONDENCE OF SAMUEL PEPTS, F. R. S,, SkCKETAKY TO TBE AUMIHAI. TY IN THE BEION8 OF CHARLES II. AND JAHEB II. EDITED BY RICHARD LORD BRAYBROOKE. The authority of Pepts, as an historian and illustrator of a considerable portion of the seventeenth century, has been Bo fully acknowledged by every scholar and critic, that it is now scarcely necessary even to remind the reader of the advantages he possessed for producing the most complete and trustworthy record of events, and the most agreeable picture of society and manners, to be found in the literature of any nation. In confidential communication with the reigning sovereigns, holding high official employment, placed at the head of the Scientific and Learned of a period remarkable for intellectual impulse, mingling in every circle, and observing everything and everybody whose characteristics were worth noting down; and possessing, moreover, an intelligence peculiarly fitted for seizing the most graphic points in whatever he attempted to delineate, Pepys may be considered the most valuable as well as the most entertaining of our National Historians. A New Library Edition of this work, comprising all the restored passages and the additional annotations that have been called for by the vast advances in a...« less