Memoirs Of John Evelyn, Esq. F.R.S. Evelyn, John. Bray, William (Edited By)

John Evelyn FRS [1620 - 1706] was an English writer, landowner, gardener, courtier and minor government official, founding fellow of the Royal Society, best known as a diarist. Evelyn's diary, or memoir, spanned the period of his adult life from 1640, when he was a student, to 1706, the year he died. He did not write daily at all times. The many volumes provide insight into life and events at a time before regular magazines or newspapers were published, making diaries of greater interest to modern historians than such works might have been at later periods. (wikipedia dot com) Extended title- Author of the "Sylva," &c. &c. Comprising his Diary from 1641 to 1705-6, and a selection of his familiar letters. To which is subjoined, The Private Correspondence between King Charles I. and Sir Edward Nicholas; also between Sir Edward Hyde, afterwards Earl of Clarendon, and Sir Richard Brown, Ambassador to The Court of France, in the time of King Charles I. and the Usurpation. New edition, in five volumes. 8vo, Vol. I xl, 394pp, portrait frontispiece, 2 folding plates, folding Pedigree of the family. Vol. II [ii] , 464pp, portrait frontispiece, 2 plates. Vol. III 441pp, frontispiece. Vol. IV [iv] 552pp, frontispiece. Vol. V 399pp, [1] frontispiece. Bound in full red buckram at a later date, library stamp on title pages, spines slt sunned, vol. I and Ii slt rubbed at spine head, otherwise bright clean copies.