The Illustrated Pepys
by Samuel Pepys
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"Samuel Pepys' FRS, MP, JP, (pron.: /pi?ps/;[1] 23 February 1633? 26 May 1703) was an English naval administrator and Member of Parliament who is now most famous for the diary he kept for a decade while still a relatively young man. Although Pepys had no maritime experience, he rose by patronage, hard work and his talent for administration, to be the Chief Secretary to the Admiralty under both King Charles II and subsequently King James II. His influence and reforms at the Admiralty were show more important in the early professionalisation of the Royal Navy.[2] The detailed private diary Pepys kept from 1660 until 1669 was first published in the 19th century, and is one of the most important primary sources for the English Restoration period. It provides a combination of personal revelation and eyewitness accounts of great events, such as the Great Plague of London, the Second Dutch War and the Great Fire of London."--Wikipedia. show lessTags
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It is a pleasure to be able, after a suitable time period – aided by ”increasing maturity” - to reread Pepys, and the researcher and indeed, Pepys official librarian, Robert Latham presents an admirable selection of edited extracts in this, the illustrated, version of the main diaries of 1660 to 1669.
As the editor remarks, it is a great pity that Samuel never resumed his daily journals in the following years as it was that later period that saw the deposing of his King and the “Glorious Revolution” of 1688. It would have been, Latham said ”one of the most important books never written.”
Certainly, with Samuel Pepys as the author, it would have been personal, witty and more than a little “saucy”!
As the editor remarks, it is a great pity that Samuel never resumed his daily journals in the following years as it was that later period that saw the deposing of his King and the “Glorious Revolution” of 1688. It would have been, Latham said ”one of the most important books never written.”
Certainly, with Samuel Pepys as the author, it would have been personal, witty and more than a little “saucy”!
I really enjoyed the perspective of events that this diary gives, and the added illustrations are wonderful. I have another copy, with no pictures, of the same book, and I am debating reading it just to see if it makes a difference in interpretation. I like the insight into Pepys himself (not a very likeable fellow, in my opinion) and into the world he called home.
Pepys is the Man!
The illustrations are scanty.
This selection is from the new and complete transcription of the Diary of Samuel Pepys edited by Robert Latham and William Matthews, publised by Bell & hyman Ltd.
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Samuel Pepys was an English naval administrator and Member of Parliament who is now most famous for the diary he kept for a decade while still a relatively young man. By his hard work and his talent for administration, he rose to be the Chief Secretary to the Admiralty under both King Charles II and King James II. The detailed private diary Pepys show more kept from 1660 until 1669 was first published in the 19th century, and is one of the most important primary sources for the English Restoration period. It provides a combination of personal revelation and eyewitness accounts of great events, such as the Great Plague of London, the Second Dutch War and the Great Fire of London. Pepys's diary has become a national monument. The diary was written in one of the many standard forms of shorthand used in Pepys's time, in this case called Tachygraphy; devised by Thomas Shelton. At the end of May 1669, he reluctantly concluded that, for the sake of his eyes, he should completely stop writing and, from then on, only dictate to his clerks which meant he could no longer keep his diary. In total, Pepys wrote for approximately nine years. This collection of both personal and political accounts is an important timepiece that illustartes life in 17th Century England. When Pepys died on May 26, 1703, he had no children and left his entire estate to his nephew, John Jackson. His estate included over 3,000 volumes in his collection of books. All of these were indexed and catalogued; they form one of the most important surviving private laibraries of the 17th century. (Bowker Author Biography) show less
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- The Illustrated Pepys
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- The Illustrated Pepys
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- 1978
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- Samuel Pepys
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- To read Pepys is to be transported immediately into his world.
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- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)What the readers of the great diary must regret is that Pepys did not resume it in the 1670s and '80s. His version of the ten critical years from the Exclusion Crisis tot the Glorious Revolution of 1688, told in diary form and in Pepysian detail by one who knew James II so well, would be an historical source of incomparable value. It must rank as one of the most important books never written.
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- 941.06 — History & geography History of Europe British Isles Historical periods of British Isles 1603-1714, House of Stuart and Commonwealth periods
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- DA447 .P4 .A4 — History of Europe, Asia, Africa and Oceania Great Britain History of Great Britain England History By period Modern, 1485- Later Stuarts
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