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PEPYS: A BIOGRAPHY

by Richard Ollard

Published by Purnell Book Services Limited. Circa. 1974

Very good condition in a almost very good dustwrapper. Book Club Edition. Red cloth spine with gilt title, darker red boards. Endpapers are maps showing the principal battles of the second and third Dutch wars. 368 pages. B/w plates.

Spine bumped. Name and date in ink to front free-endpaper. Textblock is foxed and grubby to top edge. Dustwrapper is worn and torn and is badly sunned to spine and edge of rear panel.

Stock no. 1330762

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Contents

  • 1 Beginnings
  • 2 Early Life in London
  • 3 On the eve
  • 4 Restoration
  • 5 The Navy Board
  • 6 Style of Life
  • 7 Licence and Morality
  • 8 Taste and Curiosity
  • 9 A very rising man
  • 10 The right hand of the navy
  • 11 Pepys, Sandwich and Coventry: the height of the War, 1666
  • 12 The Dutch in the Medway
  • 13 Fire and brimstone
  • 14 Recriminations: the Brooke House Committee
  • 15 Secretary to the Admiralty
  • 16 Pepys and the sea officers
  • 17 Men and ships
  • 18 Prisoner of State
  • 19 Tangier
  • 20 The Second Secretaryship
  • 21 James II and the Revolution
  • 22 Retirement
  • 23 Mens cujusque is est quisque
  • Notes
  • Chronology
  • Index

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