Word, Image, Music
Essays on the Treasures of the Pepys Library, Cambridge. In Honour of Richard Luckett
Edited by M. E. J. Hughes
ISBN: 978 1 78551 318 3
Size: 274 x 196 mm
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 144
In association with: Pepys Library, Magdalene College
UK £25 /US $35
Description
Samuel Pepys’s famous library, a remarkable collection of over 3,000 items and a rare surviving example of a private 17th-century library, was willed by Pepys to Magdalene College, Cambridge. This celebratory volume has been edited by the Pepys Librarian and President of Magdalene College, Dr M.E.J. Hughes, in tribute to her predecessor Dr Richard Luckett (Pepys Librarian 1982–2012). Contributions from eminent scholars, including professor Sir Jonathan Bate, Professor Helen Cooper, Dr Hester Lees-Jeffries and Professor James Raven, focus on items housed in the Pepys Library and on the illuminating narrative of how the collection was conceived and developed by its idiosyncratic owner.