the diary of samuel pepys a new and complete transcription

This edition was in preparation for many years, and remains the first in which the entire Diary is printed and in which an attempt has been made at systematic comment on it.

But in none of these versions - not even in the Wheatley, which for long stood as the standard edition - was there a reliable, still less a full text, and in none of them was there a commentary with any claim to completeness. A succession of new editions, re-issues and selections, published in the Victorian era, made the Diary one of the best-known books, and Pepys one of the best-known figures, of English history. The Diary was first published in abbreviated form in 1825. The ninth volume runs from January 1668 to May 1669. Snow as 'a triumph of modern scholarship' Each of the first eight volumes contains one whole calendar year of the diary, from January to December. This edition has justly become established as the definitive version, hailed by The Times as 'one of the glories of contemporary English publishing' and by C.P.

SAMUEL PEPYS (Author), Robert Latham and William Matthews (Editor) This complete edition of the Diary of Samuel Pepys comprises eleven volumes - nine volumes of text and footnotes (with an introduction of 120 pages in Volume I), a tenth volume of commentary (The Companion) and an eleventh volume of Index. THE DIARY OFSAMUEL PEPYS: A New And Complete Transcription.

The diary of samuel pepys a new and complete transcription