Pepys, Samuel

Estimate

1,500 - 2,500 USD

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Description

Pepys, Samuel
Memoirs... Comprising his Diary from 1659 to 1669... and a selection from his Private Correspondence. Edited by Richard Lord Braybrooke. London: Henry Colburn, 1825
printed book

Two volumes, large 4to (11 1/2 x 9 ins.; 291 x 230 mm). Bound with half-titles, thirteen plates including one double-page; some offsetting onto facing text from plates, very light occasional spotting. Contemporary red straight-grain morocco, gilt, edges gilt, old repairs to lower joint of one volume

Provenance

acquisition: H.D. Lyon, 1991

Literature

Grolier/English 75

Catalogue Note

First edition.