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PEPYS, Samuel
Diary of Samuel Pepys
PEPYS, Samuel. The Diary of Samuel Pepys. London: George Bell & Sons, 1893-99. Ten volumes. Octavo,three-quarter blue morocco gilt, raised bands, marbled boards and endpapers, top edges gilt. $1750. Lovely set of Pepys' influential and entertaining diary, handsomely bound by Bayntun, illustrated with over 35 plates. Pepys (1633-1703) was the Secretary to the Admiralty in the reigns of Charles II and James II, and his diary is considered "the best book of its kind in the English language... Pepys is marvelously entertaining: the times and the man peep out in a thousand odd circumstances and amusing expressions... The ablest picture of the age in which the writer lived, and a work of standard importance in English Literature." (Allibone II: 1557.) Includes a one-volume index and Pepysiana. A splendid illustrated set of Pepys' classic diary.
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