Male : Diarist and contemporary writer. Married the daughter of Sir Richard Brown and thus inherited Sayes Court in Kent. One of the first members of the Royal Society

Nationality : English Place of Birth : Wotton, Surrey

Date of Birth : 1620 Date of Death : 1706 Age : 86

Education : Lewes GS & Balliol College, Oxford

1656-1660
An Essay on the First Book of T Lucretius Carus de Rerum Natura (1656 London)
Offered in 1992 for £300
A Character of England (1659)

1661-1670
Fumifugium, or the Inconvenience of the Aer, and Smoake of London Dissipated (1662)
Sculptura, or the History and Art of Chalcography, and Engraving in Copper
(1662) - with second part (ed C F Bell)
(1755 Murray, London. 2nd Ed)
Offered in 1991 for £220
Sylva : or a Discourse of Forest Trees and the Propagation of Timber in His Majesty's Dominions
(issued in 2 parts in 1664 Martyn & Allestry, London)
[This was perhaps the first full account of the trees of Britain]
Offered in 1992 for £750
(1670 2nd Ed)
(1679. 2nd Ed)
Offered in 1998 for £425
(1704. 4th Ed)
(1706 enlarged)
(1801 York. 3rd Hunter Ed) - 2 vols
Offered in 1998 & 1999 for £290
Account of Architects and Architecture (1664)

1671-1699
Kalendarium Hortense, or the Gardener's Almanac (1673 for John Martyn, London. 5th Ed)
(1691 R Chiswell, London. 8th Ed)
A Philosophical Discourse of Earth, relating to the Culture & Improvement of it for Vegetation
(1675 London)
A Philosophical Discourse of Earth (1676 for J Martyn, London)
Numismata : A Discourse on Medals (1697 Tooke, London)

18thC
Acetaria : A Discourse of Sallets (1706 London. 2nd Ed)
Sculptura, or the History & Art of Chalcography & Engraving in Copper (1755 Payne, London)
Sylva : or a Discourse of Forest Trees (1766 York)
Sculptura Historico-Technica, or the History & Art of Engraving (1770 for J Marks. 4th Ed)
Sylva : or a Discourse of Forest Trees (1776 York) - notes by A Hunter

19thC
Memoirs, Illustrative of the Life & Writings of John Evelyn (1818) (1819 Colburn. 2nd Ed)
- 2 vols. edited by Wm Bray
The Miscellaneous Writings (ed William Upcott) (1825 Henry Colburn)
Offered in 1998 for £225
Memoirs (Ed by Wm Bray) (1827 Colburn. New Ed) - 5 vols
The Life of Mrs Godolphin (ed Samuel Wilberforce) (1847 Wm Pickering)
Memoirs, 1641-1706 (ed William Bray) (1818) (1819 Colburn. 2nd Ed) - 2 vols
Diary & Correspondence (1870 Bell, London) - 4 vols
Diary (Ed from original MS by Wm Bray) (1882 London) - 60. 4 vols

20thC
The Diary (1906 Macmillan) - 3 vols. Intro & Notes by Austin Dobson
Memories for My Grand-Son (1926 Nonesuch Press) - 1250
A Devotionarie Book of John Evelyn of Wotton, 1620-1706 : Now First Published
(1936 Murray) - 250
The Diary (ed E S de Beer) (1955 Clarendon Press, Oxford £15. 5/-) - 6 vols
Offered in 1999 for £600
Kalendarium Hortense, or the Gardener's Almanac (1983 Stourton Press, Hackney) - 350

READING
Arthur Ponsonby : John Evelyn (1933 Heinemann)
Geoffrey Keynes : John Evelyn - A Study in Bibliophily & a Bibliography of His Writings
(1937 CUP) - 300
W G Hiscock : Evelyn and Mrs Godolphin (1951)
W G Hiscock : John Evelyn and His Family Circle (1955)
Geoffrey Keynes : Bibliography of John Evelyn (1968 OUP. New Ed)
Beatrice Saunders : John Evelyn and His Times (1970 London)
John Bowle : John Evelyn and His World - A Biography (1981 Routledge, Kegan Paul)
Frances Harris : Transformations of Love - The Friendship of John Evelyn and
Margaret Godolphin (10023 Oxford UP £25)