The Diary of a Country Parson: the Reverend James Woodforde
WOODFORDE, Rev. James
Edited by John Beresford.
FINE SET IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS
Published: Clarendon Press Oxford, [1981]
Stock code: 50070
Price: £430.00
5 vols., 8vo., with 5 frontispieces and 22 plates; navy cloth, gilt backs, a fine set in unclipped dustwrapper.
Woodforde's account includes Oxford and the Somerset Curacies 1758-1776 and thereafter his residence in the Norfolk village of Weston Longeville. The set comprises Vol. I: 1758-1781; Vol. II: 1782-87; Vol. III: 1788-92; Vol. IV: 1793-1796; Vol. V: 1797-1802. Beresford's definitive edition was first published in five volumes between 1924 and 1931. Much-needed reissue of the first reprint of 1968. Please note that this reissue omits the folding map. Cordeaux & Merry 158; Darroch & Taylor 3369; Pargellis & Medley 671.