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DOUGLAS STEWART FINE BOOKS
PEPYS, Samuel (1633 – 1703)
Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, F. R. S.
Secretary to the Admiralty in the reigns of Charles II and James II. With a life and commentary by Richard Lord Braybrooke. London : Henry Colburn, 1854. Fourth edition. Four volumes, octavo, full polished calf, edges a little rubbed, a few light stains, spines in compartments with raised bands and gilt ornamentation, dual contrasting morocco title labels, marbled edges and endpapers, contemporary ownership inscription of William Taylor to title pages, engraved frontispieces and plates, tear to one folding plate in the first volume, internally clean.
A handsome set of the fourth edition of the published diary of the English writer.
$850