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Author | : Mary Elizabeth Jane Hughes |
Publisher | : Scala Arts Publishers Incorporated |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2015 |
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ISBN | : 9781857599534 |
Samuel Pepys's Library, as famous in his own lifetime as it is now, was willed by Pepys to Magdalene, the college he had attended in the 1650s. It finally arrived in 1724 to be housed in a handsome new building. A remarkable collection of some 3,000 items, the library includes medieval manuscripts and early printed books by Caxton and Wynkyn de Worde; a naval collection, reflecting Pepys's role as Secretary to the Admiralty; works by Pepys's contemporaries and members of the Royal Society, including Newton's Principia Mathematica; and an unrivalled array of ephemera - letters, playbills and invitations. Alongside the Pepys Library, Magdalene has an impressive historic collection, housed in the beautiful Old Library rooms. Evolving from a series of major benefactions to the college across nearly 500 years, combined with the books routinely acquired for the use of students and scholars in the past, the Old Library contains medieval manuscripts, incunabula, prints and papers, as well as the ancient records of the college. Contents: Preface; Introduction; The Library of Samuel Pepys; The Pepys Building; Pepys the Collector; The Diary; Furnishing a Library; The Old Library: Heart of the College; Building a Collection; The Treasures of the Old Library; Special Collections; Objects in the Collections; The Magdalene College Archives; The Work of the Historic Libraries: - Exhibitions, - Conservation, - Scholars and Readers; List of (Fellow) Librarians.
Author | : Samuel Pepys |
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Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 1900 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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Author | : Kate Loveman |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press, USA |
Total Pages | : 327 |
Release | : 2015 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0198732686 |
"This study uses [Pepys's] surviving papers to examine reading practices, collecting, and the exchange of information in the late 17th century"--Back cover.
Author | : Samuel Pepys |
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Total Pages | : 462 |
Release | : 1893 |
Genre | : Great Britain |
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Author | : Margaret Willes |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 351 |
Release | : 2017-01-01 |
Genre | : Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN | : 0300221398 |
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
Author | : Pepys Library |
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Total Pages | : 183 |
Release | : 1994 |
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Author | : Annika Bautz |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 387 |
Release | : 2018-05-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0429952392 |
This book presents the collectors’ roles as prominently as the collections of books and texts which they assembled. Contributors explore the activities and networks shaping a range of continental and transcontinental European public and private collections during the Renaissance, Enlightenment and modern eras. They study the impact of class, geographical location and specific cultural contexts on the gathering and use of printed and handwritten texts and other printed artefacts. The volume explores the social dimension of book collecting, and considers how practices of collecting developed during these periods of profound cultural, social and political change.
Author | : Samuel Pepys |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 208 |
Release | : 2020-04-14 |
Genre | : Health & Fitness |
ISBN | : 9781789430981 |
Samuel Pepys gives a unique first hand account of life during the Great Plague of London and the Great Fire of London. Pepys stayed in London while many of the wealthy fled the city in the face of the plague. His careful observation and interest in the details of people's lives as well as the events of the time are unparalleled.
Author | : Samuel Pepys |
Publisher | : Penguin UK |
Total Pages | : 54 |
Release | : 2015-03-19 |
Genre | : Literary Collections |
ISBN | : 0141397551 |
'With one's face in the wind you were almost burned with a shower of Firedrops' A selection from Pepys' startlingly vivid and candid diary, including his famous account of the Great Fire Introducing Little Black Classics: 80 books for Penguin's 80th birthday. Little Black Classics celebrate the huge range and diversity of Penguin Classics, with books from around the world and across many centuries. They take us from a balloon ride over Victorian London to a garden of blossom in Japan, from Tierra del Fuego to 16th century California and the Russian steppe. Here are stories lyrical and savage; poems epic and intimate; essays satirical and inspirational; and ideas that have shaped the lives of millions.
Author | : Pepys Library |
Publisher | : D. S. Brewer |
Total Pages | : 410 |
Release | : 1987 |
Genre | : Music |
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