The complete diary of Samuel Pepys : tercentenary boxed set

This is complete edition of the "Diary of Samuel Pepys" in four volumes, comprising the first three calendar years of the diary 1660-1663 with an introduction of 120 pages, 1664-1666 in a second volume, 1667-1669 in a third, plus a fourth companion and index volume.

The diary was first published in abbreviated form in 1825.A succession of new editions, re-issues and selections, published in the Victorian era, made it one of the best-known books, and Pepys one of the best-known figures, of English history.

But in none of these versions 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 has been in preparation for many years, and offers the work in full, as well as a systematic comment on it.

The primary aim of the principal editors was to see that the work was presented in a manner suitable to the historical and literary importance of its contents, at the same time taking into account 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.