1912, ISBN: c17ef86d350f81fa16ece5dc11b11343

E. & S. Harding Pall Mall, 1792. Engraved by Schiavonetti, S. Harding del., from an original picture, from an original picture in miniature in the possession of the Marquis of Bucking… Mehr…

E. & S. Harding Pall Mall, 1792. Engraved by Schiavonetti, S. Harding del., from an original picture, from an original picture in miniature in the possession of the Marquis of Buckingham, 1792, 22 x 14 cm in passe-partout. Mary "Moll" Davis (ca. 1648 - 1708) was a seventeenth-century entertainer and courtesan, singer and actress who became one of the many mistresses of King Charles II of England. Davis was born around 1648 in Westminster and was said by Samuel Pepys, the famous diarist, to be "a bastard of Collonell Howard, my Lord Barkeshire" - probably meaning Thomas Howard, third Earl of Berkshire. - During the early 1660s she was an actress in the 'Duke's Theatre Company' and boarded with the company's manager, Sir William Davenant. - She became a popular singer, dancer and comedian, but the wife of Pepys called her "the most impertinent slut in the world". Davis met King Charles II in a theatre or coffee-house in about 1667. - She flaunted the wealth she acquired from her association with Charles, and gained a reputation for vulgarity and greed. She showed off her "mighty pretty fine coach" (Pepys:[4]) and a ring worth £600, in those days a vast sum. - Davis gave up the stage in 1668 and in 1669 had a daughter by Charles, Lady Mary Tudor, who became famous in her own right. Later, Charles dismissed Davis, possibly due to some chicanery by Nell Gwynne, a major rival for the King's affections. Davis did not leave empty-handed however: Charles awarded her an annual pension for life of £1,000. In January, 1667-68, Pepys notes that the King had furnished a house for Moll Davis, the actress, "in Suffolke Street most richly, which is a most infinite shame." At the time this street belonged to James Howard, 3rd Earl of Suffolk and 3rd Lord de Walden, a nephew of Thomas Howard, Moll's natural father. Mary Davis is given in the rate books for 1672-3 but not earlier. - In October 1673, Davis bought a new house in St James's Square from trustees for Edward Shaw, paying £1800.[7] 'Madam Davis' first appears in the ratebook for the year 1675 and last appears in 1687. This house (which was surveyed by John Soane in 1799) was almost square and had three storeys, each with four evenly-spaced windows, all dressed with a wide architrave and cornice. The staircase hall was south of a large room in front, and two smaller rooms and a secondary staircase at the rear. There was a massive cross-wall, containing the fireplaces of the back rooms. It would now have been Number 22, St James's Square, if it had survived. It was demolished in 1847 to make way for a new club house for the Army and Navy Club, having survived longer than any other of the other original houses in the square.In December 1686, Davis married the French musician and composer James Paisible (c. 1656-1721), a member of James II's private musick. - Sir George Etherege wrote scornfully of the marriage: "Mrs Davies has given proof of the great passion she always had for music, and Monsieur Peasible has another bass to thrum than that he played so well upon". - The Paisibles joined James's court in exile at St Germain-en-Laye, but in 1693 returned to England, where Paisible became composer to Prince George of Denmark, the husband of Princess Anne, heir to the throne. (Wikipedia). KEYWORDS:united kingdom/maps, 0, London and NY: J. M. Dent & Sons / E. P. Dutton & Co.. Very Good with No dust jacket as issued. 1912. First Edition. Fifth Printing. Hard Cover. Publisher's full gray cloth, gilt lettering on spines, blind-stamped medallions on covers, printed endpapers, top edges red, decorated title pages. This is the two-volume Everyman Edition, first published in 1906, this copy from the 5th printing in 1912. Complete titie is: "Diary of Samuel Pepys F.R.S. Secretary to the Admiralty in the Reigns of Charles II and James II. The Diary deciphered by the Rev. J. Smith A.M. from the Original Shorthand M.S. in the Pepysian Library, with Notes by Richard Lord Braybrooks." "Secretary to the Admiralty during the reigns of Charles II and James II, Samuel Pepys "made no scruple of committing his most secret thoughts to paper. It is a human document, illustrating the manners and habits of the age" (Rosenbach 33:281). He commenced his diary at age 27 and, for fear of losing his eyesight, ended it nine years later, but not before filling six volumes with closely written shorthand. The diary languished in the Magdalene College library until the Reverend John Smith deciphered its text between 1819-22. It was first published in 1825. "To read Pepys is to be transported immediately into his world. His diary is not so much a record of events as a recreation of them. Not all the passages are as picturesque as the famous set pieces in which he describes Charles II's coronation or the Great Fire of London, but there is not an entry which does not in some degree display the same power of summoning back to life the events it relates… Throughout the diary Pepys writes mainly as an observer of people. It is this that makes him the most human and accessible of diarists, and that gives the Diary its special quality as a historical record" (Latham, The Illustrated Pepys, 7). "The best book of its kind in the English language… Pepys is marvelously entertaining: the times and the man peep out in a thousand odd circumstances and amusing expressions… The ablest picture of the age in which the writer lived, and a work of standard importance in English Literature" (Allibone, 1557)." - Bauman's. Covers mildly worn along edges, some foxing on endpapers, else near fine; unmarked, tight, square, and clean. VERY GOOD.. Everyman's Library Series. 12mo 7" - 7½" tall. viii, (i), 666; viii, 719, (1) pp ., J. M. Dent & Sons / E. P. Dutton & Co., 1912, 3<

1979, ISBN: c17ef86d350f81fa16ece5dc11b11343

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Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 1970. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. Complete in eleven (11) volumes, uniformly bound… Mehr…

Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA: University of California Press, 1970. Book. Fine. Hardcover. 1st Edition. 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall. Complete in eleven (11) volumes, uniformly bound in polished green cloth-effect boards, lettered in gold foil with red title field. Vols. 1-8 are comprised by Pepys' diary 1660-67 (one year per volume), with Vol. 9 providing 1668-69, Vol. 10 a companion, and Vol. 11 an index. Several of the volumes show slight age-tanning to text block edges; otherwise, the set is as issued. The dust jackets of Vols. III-IX are price-clipped; otherwise, all 11 are essentially as issued and now in mylar. Vols. I and II are 4th ptgs. (1979), Vol. III a 3rd (1973), and Vol. VII a 2nd (1974), all others 1st ptgs. from their respective years of issue (1970-83). A collector-grade set with only the slightest of faults.., University of California Press, 1970, 5<

1970, ISBN: c17ef86d350f81fa16ece5dc11b11343

Gebundene Ausgabe

Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA], Jacket, Complete in eleven (11) volumes, uniformly bound in polished green cloth-effect board… Mehr…

Gebraucht, guter Zustand, [PU: University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, CA], Jacket, Complete in eleven (11) volumes, uniformly bound in polished green cloth-effect boards, lettered in gold foil with red title field. Vols. 1-8 are comprised by Pepys' diary 1660-67 (one year per volume), with Vol. 9 providing 1668-69, Vol. 10 a companion, and Vol. 11 an index. Several of the volumes show slight age-tanning to text block edges; otherwise, the set is as issued. The dust jackets of Vols. III-IX are price-clipped; otherwise, all 11 are essentially as issued and now in mylar. Vols. I and II are 4th ptgs. (1979), Vol. III a 3rd (1973), and Vol. VII a 2nd (1974), all others 1st ptgs. from their respective years of issue (1970-83). A collector-grade set with only the slightest of faults. Size: 8vo - over 7" - 9" tall<

1952, ISBN: c17ef86d350f81fa16ece5dc11b11343

London: G Bell and Sons. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1952. Hardcover. Complete in 3 Volumes lix + 371pp, 385pp, 514pp, bound in blue cloth/gilt, with VG dustwraspper; Octavo ., G… Mehr…

London: G Bell and Sons. Very Good in Very Good dust jacket. 1952. Hardcover. Complete in 3 Volumes lix + 371pp, 385pp, 514pp, bound in blue cloth/gilt, with VG dustwraspper; Octavo ., G Bell and Sons, 1952, 3<