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Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
Unlike some other reproductions of classic texts (1) We have not
used OCR(Optical Character Recognition), as this leads to bad
quality books with introduced typos. (2) In books where there are
images such as portraits, maps, sketches etc We have endeavoured to
keep the quality of these images, so they represent accurately the
original artefact. Although occasionally there may be certain
imperfections with these old texts, we feel they deserve to be made
available for future generations to enjoy.
The sixth volume of the complete Diary of Samuel Pepys in its most
authoritative and acclaimed edition. This complete edition of the
Diary of Samuel Pepys comprises eleven volumes - nine volumes of
text and footnotes (with an introduction of 120 pages in Volume I),
a tenth volume of commentary (The Companion) and an eleventh volume
of Index. Each of the first eight volumes contains one whole
calendar year of the diary, from January to December. The ninth
volume runs from January 1668 to May 1669. The Diary was first
published in abbreviated form in 1825. A succession of new
editions, re-issues and selections, published in the Victorian ear,
made the diary one of the best-known books, and Pepys one of the
best-known figures, of English history. But in none of these
versions - not even in the Wheatley, which for long stood as the
standard edition - was there a reliable, still less a full text,
and in none of them was there a commentary with any claim to
completeness. This edition was in preparation for many years, and
remains the first in which the entire diary is printed and in which
an attempt has been made at systematic comment on it. The primary
aim of the principal editors was to see that the diary was
presented in a manner suitable to the historical and literary
importance of its contents. At the same time they had in mind the
interests of the wide public of English-speaking people to whom the
diarist himself, rather than the importance of what he wrote, is
what matters.
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