Germain Boffrand, 1667-1754

These diaries by Ralph Ward (fl.1754–6) and Arthur Jessop (1682–1751) were first published in 1952 and paint a valuable portrait of the trials, tribulations and pleasures of everyd...

Selections from the writings of Jeremy Taylor (1613-1667), “The Shakespeare of English prose,” which illustrate the underlying theological synthesis of the Caroline Divines and the...

The decade after the Restoration saw the publication of several important works and collections of verse. Samuel Butler’s mock-heroic Hudibras satirized the civil war conflict, and...