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Samuel Pepys' Penny Merriments
Samuel Pepys' Penny Merriments
Author: Roger Thompson (Editor)
In Samuel Pepys' library when he died was a collection of 115 tiny chapbooks which he had labelled "Penny Marriment." Since such chapbooks were shoddily produced and sold on street corners, few have survived. This unique collection (mostly dating from the 1680s), now housed in Magdalene College, Cambridge, and presented here in 80 extracts, give...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780231042819
ISBN-10: 0231042817
Publication Date: 1976
Pages: 302
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Publisher: Columbia University Press
Book Type: Paperback
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