Mar 07, 2019 - Sale 2501

Sale 2501 - Lot 215

Price Realized: $ 688
?Final Price Realized includes Buyer’s Premium added to Hammer Price
Estimate: $ 500 - $ 750
PEPYS, SAMUEL. Memoirs . . . comprising his Diary from 1659 to 1669 . . . and a Selection from his Private Correspondence. Edited by Richard, Lord Braybrooke. 13 plates, including one folding. [2], xlii, 498, [2], xlix, [1]; [4], 348, [2], vii, [1], [3]-311 pages, including half-titles. 2 volumes. 4to, 295x225 mm, contemporary brown calf, spines attractively gilt with red leather lettering pieces, front joints starting, some scuffs and scratches on covers; heavy offsetting from plates onto facing pages, contents otherwise generally clean; cloth slipcase. Brackenburn bookplates of the novelist Sir Hugh Walpole. London: Henry Colburn, 1825

Additional Details

first edition. Laid in are a one-page ALS dated 1834 from the editor, Lord Braybrooke, to an unnamed recipient ("My Lord") on unrelated matters, and his clipped franked address dated 1829.