The Diary of a Country Parson: the Reverend James Woodforde
WOODFORDE, James
Edited by John Beresford. Volumes 1-3 only [of 5].
SOUND WORKING COLLECTION
Published: Oxford University Press, [1924-1926-1927]
Stock code: 28862
Price: £45.00
3 vols., [of 5], 8vo., Mixed Impressions, with frontispieces and plates; original black cloth, backstrips with printed paper labels, backstrips worn and split, labels worn (but just legible), uncut, a good, sound working collection of the first three volumes.
Sold from an institution with its bookplate and press-marks on endpapers, and small blind stamp on titles. Woodforde's account includes Oxford and the Somerset Curacies 1758-1776 and thereafter his residence in the Norfolk village of Weston Longeville. The first three volumes comprise Vol. I: 1758-1781 (second impression, 1924); Vol. II: 1782-87 (first edition, 1926); Vol. III: 1788-92 (first edition, 1927). Beresford's definitive edition was first published in five volumes between 1924 and 1931. See Cordeaux & Merry 158; Darroch & Taylor 3369; Pargellis & Medley 671.