PEPYS SAMUEL Memoirs

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PEPYS, SAMUEL. Memoirs . . . comprising his Diary from 1659 to 1669 . . . and a Selection from his Private Correspondence. Edited by Richard, Lord Braybrooke. 2 volumes. 13 plates (one folding). Half-titles. Large 4to, contemporary polished tan calf, covers with blind-stamped ornamental borders within gilt-rule, spine in six compartments with gilt morocco lettering labels in two; contents generally clean except for offsetting from plates onto facing pages and foxing chiefly on front and end leaves; preserved in cloth slipcase; William Dowdeswell and Richard Lane Freer bookplates, unobtrusive library labels, and catalog clipping (Vol. 1 only), all on front pastedowns. With a tipped-in later manuscript note in unknown hand to front free endpaper of Vol. 1. London: Henry Colburn, 1825

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first edition, in a handsome binding. "It is the very private nature of the Diary which provides its piquancy: here was no writing for a public, no sensationalism, no needless embellishment. It is in such passages as the description of the Great Fire that Pepys reveals his shrewd powers of observation, his matter-of-factness and, in a strange way, an almost modern journalistic technique"--Blackwell's of Oxford Catalogue; Grolier 100; English 75; Sterling 674.