The Diary of a Country Parson: the Reverend James Woodforde
WOODFORDE, Rev. James
Edited by John Beresford. [First Complete Reissue.]
NEAR FINE SET IN UNCLIPPED DUSTWRAPPERS
Published: Clarendon Press Oxford, [1968]
Stock code: 50071
Price: £390.00
5 vols., 8vo., with 5 frontispieces, 22 plates and large folding map,; black cloth, gilt backs, a near fine set in unclipped dustwrapper, the wrappers mildly sunned at backstrips.
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. This is the first complete re-issue. COMPLETE SETS ARE SCARCE IN THIS CONDITION. Cordeaux & Merry 158; Darroch & Taylor 3369; Pargellis & Medley 671.