Roger Hudson THE FOLIO BOOK OF DAYS Folio Society 2002
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Roger Hudson THE FOLIO BOOK OF DAYS Folio Society 2002
First Folio printing slipcased hardback of THE FOLIO BOOK OF DAYS. Selected and introduced by Roger Hudson. and published by The Folio Society Ltd., London, in 2002.The book is in fine condition (Bound in black buckram with a gold design by David Eccles. Gold lettering on spine) with no significant wear. The slipcase is in near fine condition with just minor handling and storage wear. Internally, the pages are clean and tight and there are no tears and no inscriptions.
From his earliest lucid moments, Roger Hudson was quite clearly infected with the bacillus of history. After Cambridge and a spell in a publishing house, publishing history, he has researched for, edited or otherwise worked with many historians on their books. These include, David Newsome's books on Victorian England, Charles Allen's on nineteenth-century India, Adam Zamoyski's on Poland, Jonathan Spence's on China, Philip Mansel's on Constantinople and Paris, James Buchan's on 18th-century Edinburgh, Martin Gilbert's on Jewish history, Alan Palmer's on the Napoleonic period, Tom Pocock's on Nelson's navy, and Michael Hickey's on Gallipoli and the Korean War. He has also edited biographies of many historical figures. He has also compiled a series of books, largely on history, for the Folio Society: THE GRAND QUARREL: the English Civil War through women's eyes; THE GRAND TOUR; NELSON & EMMA; WILLIAM RUSSELL; SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT OF THE TIMES - the war reporting of William Howard Russell; LONDON: PORTRAIT OF A CITY; THE JUBILEE YEARS 1887; THE RAJ - an eyewitness history of British India.
In The Folio Book of Days, each day in the year there is an interesting entry from many different sources which span from the 17th to the 20th centuries and there are links between the entries which the editor explains in the introduction. So the book becomes an interesting kind of social history book for the reader.
This specially commissioned volume features around 500 entries by 95 writers, selected and edited by Roger Hudson and 160 glorious paintings, photographs and engravings - 100 in full colour. In The Folio Book of Days you can eavesdrop on the everyday conversations or idle thoughts of the great and the good; view earth-shattering events from a new perspective; or re-live memorable days from the lives of the great diarists. From an eyewitness account of the murder of Thomas ? Becket at Canterbury Cathedral on 29 December 1170, to the terror attacks on New York on 11 September 2001, the voices of past and present echo loud and clear. Featured contributors include: William Allingham, Buzz Aldrin , Jane Austen, Louis Bleriot, Anne Boleyn, Jane Welsh Carlyle, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Christopher Columbus, Francis Drake, Queen Elizabeth I, Edward Fitzgerald, Sir John Froissart, Mahatma Gandhi, Thomas Gray, Max Hastings, Ernest Hemingway, John Keats, Martin Luther King, Jr, Jack London, Vincent Lunardi, Guglielmo Marconi, Samuel Pepys,Ernest Shackleton, John Simpson, Sydney Smith, Queen Victoria, Walt Whitman, Virginia Woolf, Dorothy Wordsworth.
"It is natural to be curious about what people might have been up to, or thinking, or writing to each other on a particular day in a previous century. This book provides one set of answers among the myriad available to satisfy such inquisitiveness. It draws not merely on diaries but on letters on eyewitness accounts on a few speeches and a few sermons as well, by more than one hundred people; in fact, on any source that is dated - and for once, the day of the month is more important than the year. Kings and queens, presidents, loiterers in the corridors of power, avid diarists and compulsive letter-writers, profligate lords and sharp-tongued ladies, politicians, poets, painters, literary figures, historians, soldiers, sailors, clergymen, farmers, explorers, reporters - all are to be found here."
Including Biographical Notes on the Writers; Sources and Acknowledgements; and Index.
336 pages. Illustrated with colour and black & white photographs and illustrations throughout.
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