Penny Merriments

by Roger Thompson

A collection of chapbooks by Samuel Pepys.

302 pages, Hardcover

First published November 1, 1976

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Reviews

[Susan]

They say history is in the details. Penny Merriments is one of my favorite resources simply because it's chock-a-block full of details. Samuel Pepys, diarist extraordinaire, collected the ephemera of his day.... leaflets, penny newspapers, racing forms, and any other type of cheap printed writing he could get his hands on. His diligence is our good luck. He saved hundreds of items that weren't meant to survive a week. It's ironic that these insignificant papers meant more to the Londoners of the time than all that high-brow crap we're forced to read in English Lit classes!. Bless you,Samuel Pepys, for your foresight!

[Kit Kincade · Rating 2 out of 5]

Because the collection is mostly full of things that have been excerpted, it is fine for an overall sense of the type of things in the collection, but lousy for trying to follow any one thing through for continuity's sake.