The curious world of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn. ([2017])

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Margaret Willes.
• Authors: Willes, Margaret
• Contents: Introduction: curiouser and curiouser -- 'The world do not grow old at all' -- Two worlds -- The decade of the diaries -- Prodigious revolutions -- 'Even private families are ... the best of governments' -- Private lives -- 'I do indulge myself a little the more in pleasure' -- Take nobody's word for it -- Pleasure above all things -- Hortulan affairs -- Exotic extravagances -- The affection which we have to books -- Epilogue: and so to bed -- Appendix: the true domestick intelligence.
• Publisher Details: New Haven : Yale University Press
• Publication Date: 2017
• Copyright Date: 2017
• Extent: 1 online resource (xx, 282 pages, 48 unnumbered pages of plates)
• Subjects: 941.06092/2; Cabinet officers -- Great Britain -- Biography; Diarists -- Great Britain -- Biography; Ministres -- Grande-Bretagne -- Biographies; HISTORY -- Modern -- 17th Century; Cabinet officers; Courts and courtiers; Diarists; Friendship; Great Britain -- History -- Stuarts, 1603-1714 -- Biography; Great Britain -- Court and courtiers -- Biography; Grande-Bretagne -- Histoire -- 1603-1714 (Stuarts) -- Biographies; Great Britain; Biography; collective biographies; Biographies; History; Biographies; Biographies; Friends and associates; Friends and associates
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9780300231724; 0300231725
• Related ISBNs: 9780300221398; 0300221398; 9780300238686; 0300238681
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Print version record.
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