Author:John Evelyn

John Evelyn
(1620–1706)

John Evelyn

Works

• Diary of John Evelyn Bray edition (1818): (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2); Wheatley edition (1882): (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2, 3); Dobson edition (1906): (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2, 3)
• Of Liberty and Servitude (1649)
• The States of France, as it stood in the IXth year of Louis XIII. (1652)
• An Essay on the First Book of T. Lucretius Carus de Rerum Natura (1656)
• A Character of England (1659)
• The Late News from Brussels Unmasked (1660)
• Fumigium, or The Inconveniencie of the Aer and Smoak of London Dissipated (1661)
• Tyrannus or the Mode, in a Discourse of Sumptuary Laws (1661);
• Sculptura: or the History and Art of Chatcography and Engraving in Copper (1662); original edition, (1906) with additions
• Sylva, or a Discourse of Forest Trees (1664); (external scan)
• The History of the three late famous Imposters, viz. Padre Ottomano, Mahomed Bei, and Sabatei Sevi (1669);
• Navigation and Commerce, in which his Majesties title to the Dominion of the Sea is asserted against the Novel and later Pretenders (1674)
• A Philosophical Discourse of Earth (1676)
• Kalendarium hortense: or, The gard'ners almanac. (1683) (external scan)
• Numismata. (1697) (external scan)
• Acetaria: a discourse of sallets (1699) (external scan)
• The history of religion, a rational account of the true religion (1850) (external scans (multiple parts): 1, 2)
• The life of Mrs. Godolphin (external scan)

Translations

• The Golden Book of St John Chrysostom (printed 1658, dated 1659)
• The French Gardener: instructing how to cultivate all sorts of Fruit-trees by N. de Bonnefons (1658)
• Instructions concerning erecting of a Library (1661), from the French of Gabriel Naudé (start transcription)
• A Parallel of the Ancient Architecture with the Modern (1664), from the French of Roland Fréart;
• An idea of the perfection of painting: demonstrated from the principles of art, and by examples conformable to the observations, which Pliny and Quintilian have made upon the most celebrated pieces of the antient painters, parallel'd with some works of the most famous modern painters, Leonardo da Vinci, Raphael, Julio Romano, and N. Poussin (1668), by Roland Fréart

Works about Evelyn

• "Evelyn, John (1620-1706)," in Dictionary of National Biography, 1885-1900, London: Smith, Elder, & Co. (1885–1900) in 63 vols.
• "Evelyn, John," in A Short Biographical Dictionary of English Literature, by John William Cousin, London: J. M. Dent & Sons (1910)
• "Evelyn, John," in Encyclopædia Britannica (11th ed., 1911)
• John Evelyn in Naples, 1645 (1914) (external scan)
• The early life and education of John Evelyn, 1620-1741 (Oxford Historical and Literary Studies) (1920) (external scan)
• "John Evelyn," in Men of Kent and Kentishmen (p. 44), by John Hutchinson, Canterbury: Cross & Jackman (1892)