JOHN EVELYN: living for ingenuity by Evelyn, John; Darley, Gillian - 2006

New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2006. Pp. xiv+382(last blank), 16 plates, text illustrations, notes, select bibliography, index; med. 8vo; black boards, spine lettered in gilt, bottom fore-corner of upper board a trifle bruised; dust wrapper, slightly foxed on reverse; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, edges of leaves faintly foxed; Yale University Press, New Haven, Connecticut, 2006. First edition. *'This new biography of John Evelyn (1620-1706), diarist, scholar and intellectual virtuoso, is the first account to make full use of Evelyn's huge unpublished archive deposited at the British Library in 1995' [wrapper blurb].