[Rarebooks] FS: LEC Diary of Samuel Pepys

Charles Agvent agvent at erols.com
Sat Dec 10 09:07:00 EST 2005


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PEPYS,  Samuel.  THE  DIARY OF SAMUEL  PEPYS.  New  York:  Limited
Editions Club 1942. Ten octavo (6" x 9-1/2") volumes bound in buckram-
backed  decorated boards. The Wheatley-Bright edition, transcribed  by
the  Rev. Mynors Bright from the Shorthand Manuscript in the  Pepysian
Library  at  Magdalene College Cambridge and edited with additions  by
Henry  B.  Wheatley,  F.S.A.  Copy  #890   of  1500  copies  with  200
illustrations  by  William  Sharp and SIGNED by him  on  the  colophon
page.  Small  university  bookplate  on the front  pastedown  of  each
volume. About Fine in Fine slipcase.                           $300.00

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