The Diary of Samuel Pepys by Samuel Pepys
The Index to the complete Diary of Samuel Pepys in its most authoritative and acclaimed edition.‘The Latham-Matthews transcription of Pepys’ Diary is one of the glories of contemporary English publishing’
The Times
‘Here, in one of the finest feats in all the long history of scholarship, is Pepys’ Diary, once and for all. Exegi monumentum aere perennius.’
Observer
‘It isn’t often that one encounters a publication – especially of this magnitude – which achieves complete perfection, but there is no doubt that this does.’
Sir Arthur Bryant
Robert Latham, cbe, ma, fba was born in Audley, Staffordshire. Educated at Cambridge, he was Reader in History in the University of London at Royal Holloway College from 1947 to 1968 when he went to the University of Toronto as Professor of History. From 1970 he was a Fellow of Magdalene College, Cambridge, where, as Pepys Librarian until 1982, he had charge of the remarkable collection of books, prints and manuscripts which Pepys left to his old College. He devoted the greater part of his life to the study of the Diary, and died in January 1995.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780004990316 |
| ISBN 10 | 0004990315 |
| Title | The Diary of Samuel Pepys |
| Author | Samuel Pepys |
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| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
| Year published | 1995-04-18 |
| Number of pages | 368 |
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