SAMUEL PEPYS' DIARY
New York: GROSSET & DUNLAP, 1932.
Price: $20.00
Hardcover. Reprint. Very good with slightly faded spine.
Item #289981
Samuel Pepys
birth name: Samuel Pepys
born: 2/23/1633
died: 5/26/1703
nationality: Great Britain
Biography
English naval administrator, celebrated for his Diary (first published 1825), which gives a lively and fascinating picture of the upper-class life of Restoration London. Pepys was also a book collector, who donated his library to Magdalene College, Cambridge. It was amongst these volumes that the six quartos of his diary, written in a special shorthand, were discovered and deciphered.more