WOODFORDE (J). BERESFORD (J), ed.: The Diary of a Country Parson: the Reverend James Woodforde. Edited by John Beresford , Clarendon Press, Oxford, [1968]

5 vols., 8vo., with 5 frontispieces, 22 plates and a large folding map, small neat signature on front paste-downs; publisher's black cloth, gilt backs, covers lightly age-soiled else a very good, bright, clean set without d/w. 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. Cordeaux & Merry 158; Darroch & Taylor 3369; Pargellis & Medley 671 (recording the first Beresford edition). (Book ref. 19607)  £145.00

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