[Rarebooks] fa: MEMOIRS OF SAMUEL PEPYS - FIRST EDITION - 2 vols. 1825

[Ardwight Chamberlain]

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Memoirs of Samuel Pepys, Esq., F.R.S., Secretary to the Admiralty in  
the Reigns of Charles II and James II, Comprising his Diary from 1659  
to 1669, Deciphered by the Rev. John Smith, A.B. From the  Original  
Short-hand MS. in the Pepysian Library, and a Selection from his  
Private Correspondence. Edited by Richard, Lord Braybrooke. London:  
Henry Colburn, 1825. FIRST EDITION. Two large 4to volumes (30.5 x 24  
cm; 12 x 9.5 in), bound in half navy morocco and green buckram; pp.  
[2], xlii, 498, [2], xlix; [ii], 348, [2], vii, [1, blank], 3-311,  
[1]; half-title in vol. I; 13 engraved plates (1 folding) and 2 in- 
text engravings.

The first edition of the most famous diary in the English language and  
the key historical record of Restoration London. Complete with all  
thirteen plates, one of which is folding. Ink stamps of the London  
Institution (1806-1912) on the plates, title-pages and last pages of  
text (no other library markings); modest wear to the edges/corners of  
the bindings; interior hinges partly cracked but boards are sound and  
secure; offsetting from the plates as usual, occasional mostly light  
scattered spotting and toning; otherwise clean and sound, firmly  
bound. A solid copy of this landmark of history and literature, one of  
the "Grolier English Hundred.".