The World of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn - Book List

The Diaries: Complete Editions

Evelyn, J. The Diary Of John Evelyn. Edited By E.S. De Beer
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 2000
6 Volumes. Vol. 1: Introduction and de Vita Propria. Vol. 2: 1620-1649. Vol. 3: 1650-1672. Vol. 4: 1673-1689. Vol. 5: 1690-1706. Vol. 6: Additions, Corrections and Index

Pepys, S. The Diary of Samuel Pepys. Edited By Robert Latham and William Matthews
London: Harpercollins, 1995
11 Volumes. Vols 1-9: 1660-1669. Vol. 10: Companion. Vol. 11: Index

Audio Versions of Pepys's Diary

The Diary of Samuel Pepys. Read By Kenneth Branagh
Hodder Headline Audiobooks, 2004
ISBN: 1-840-32916-5
Vol.1: 1660-1663. Vol.2: 1663-1666. Vol.3: 1666-1669

Selections From The Diary of Samuel Pepys. Read By Michael Maloney
Naxos Audiobooks, 2003
NA 428812
ISBN: 9-6263-4288-9

Online Versions of The Diaries

Samuel Pepys
The Diary of Samuel Pepys

John Evelyn. The 1901 Edition In 2 Volumes Edited by William Bray

The Diaries And Other Writings: Selections

The Diary Of John Evelyn. Edited By Guy de la Bedoyere
Woodbridge: Boydell, 1995

Particular Friends: The Correspondence of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn. Edited By Guy de la Bedoyere
Woodbridge: Boydell Press, 1997

The Writings of John Evelyn. Edited by Guy de la Bedoyere
Woodbridge: Boydell, 1995

The Letter of Samuel Pepys, 1656-1703. Selected and Edited By Guy de la Bedoyere
Woodbridge: Boydell, 2009

The Diary of John Evelyn. Selected and edited by John Bowle
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1983

John Evelyn's Diary: A Selection from the Diary. Edited by Philip Francis
London: The Folio Society, 1963

Pepys's Diary. Edited by J.P. Kenyon
London: Batsford, 1963

Pepys's Later Diaries. Edited by C.S. Knighton
Stroud: Sutton, 2004

The Illustrated Pepys: Extracts from the Diary. Selected and Edited by Robert Latham
London: Bell & Hyman, 1982

The Shorter Pepys. Selected and edited by Robert Latham
London: Penguin, 1987

A Pepys Anthology: Passages from the Diary of Samuel Pepys. Selected and Edited by Robert and Linnet Latham
London: Harpercollins, 2000
[Also published Under the title The World of Samuel Pepys]

Charles II's Escape from Worcester: A Collection of Narratives Assembled by Samuel Pepys. Edited by William Matthews.
London: Bell, 1967

The Sayings of Samuel Pepys. Edited by Richard Ollard
London: Duckworth, 1996

The Concise Pepys. With and Introduction by Stuart Sim
Ware: Wordsworth Editions, 1997

The Diary of Elizabeth Pepys. Edited by Dale Spender
London: Grafton, 1991

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Bowle, J. John Evelyn and his World: A Biography
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1981

Tomalin, C. Samuel Pepys: The Unequalled Self
London: Viking/Penguin, 2002

Willes, M. The Curious World of Samuel Pepys and John Evelyn
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2017

Background Reading

Barber, R.W. Samuel Pepys Esquire
London: Bell, 1970

Bastable, J. Voices from the world of Samuel Pepys
Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 2007

Bastable, J. Inside Pepys' London
Newton Abbot: David & Charles, 2011

Bryant, A. Pepys and the Revolution
London: Collins, 1979

Bryant, A. Samuel Pepys. Vol.1: The Man in the Making
London: Panther, 1984. [Originally Published 1947]

-  Samuel Pepys. Vol.2: The Years of Peril
London: Panther, 1985. [Originally Published 1948]

-  Samuel Pepys. Vol.3: The Saviour of the Navy
London: Panther, 1985. [Originally Published 1949]

Campbell-Culver, M. A Passion for Trees: The Legacy of John Evelyn
London: Eden Project, 2006

Coote, S. Samuel Pepys: A Life
London: Hodder & Stoughton, 2000

Darley, G. John Evelyn: Living for Ingenuity
New Haven: Yale University Press, 2006

Davies, H.J. John Evelyn: The Diary
Brighton: Book Guild, 2009

Harris, F. Transformations of Love: The Friendship of John Evelyn and Margaret Godolphin
Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2002

Harris, F. and Hunter, M. (Eds) John Evelyn and his Milieu
London: The British Library, 2003

Higham, F. John Evelyn Esquire: An Anglican Layman of the Seventeenth Century
London: SCM Press, 1968

Hiscock, W.G. John Evelyn and Mrs. Godolphin
London: Macmillan, 1951

Hiscock, W.G. John Evelyn and his Family Circle
London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1955

Hunter, M. Science and Society In Restoration England
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1981

Hunter, M. Science and the Shape of Orthodoxy: Intellectual Change in Late Seventeenth-Century Britain
Woodbridge: Boydell & Brewer, 1995

Kenyon, J. The Popish Plot
London: Heinemann, 1972

Knighton, C.S. Pepys and the Navy
Stroud: Sutton, 2003

Leith-Ross, P. 'The Garden of John Evelyn at Deptford'
Garden History. Vol. 25. Part 2. 1997

Long, J. The Plot Against Pepys
London: Faber And Faber, 2007

Ollard, R. Pepys: A Biography
London: Sinclair-Stevenson, 1990

Macleod, C. Painted Ladies: Women at the Court of Charles II
London: National Portrait Gallery, 2001

Miller, J. The Stuarts
London: Hambledon And London, 2004

Rodger, N. Command of the Ocean: A Naval History Of Britain 1649 - 1815
London: Allen Lane/Penguin, 2004

Saunders, B. John Evelyn and his Times
Oxford: Pergamon Press, 1970

Spurr, J. The Restoration Church of England, 1646-1689
New Haven: Yale University Press, 1991

Strong, R. The Renaissance Garden in England
London: Thames And Hudson, 1984

Trease, G. Samuel Pepys and his World
London: Thames And Hudson, 1972

Websites

The Samuel Pepys Club

The John Evelyn Archive at the British Library

Sayes Court Garden Restoration Campaign

Pepys Library. Magdalene College, Cambridge

Andrew Lacey
March 2023

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