THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS
by PEPYS, SAMUEL
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VERY FINE BLACK MOROCCO, HANDSOMELY GILT, BY BAYNTUN-RIVIERE, signed at foot of front pastedown, covers framed with gilt rules connecting interlacing cornerpieces, gilt pictorial centerpiece with Pepys' monogram on crossed anchors and twining rope, the whole surmounted by his motto on a scroll, raised bands, spines gilt in compartments repeating motif of cover frames and with centered "S P" monogram, wide inner gilt dentelles, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. More than 200 illustrations by William Sharp (including first and last openings with pictorial endpapers from the original publisher's binding). Front pastedowns with the bookplate of Robert Marceau. ◆A few trivial imperfections internally, but an extremely fine copy in a most attractive binding.
In a handsome binding by a leading English workshop, this is the famous diary of Pepys (1633-1703), a work that gives us important historical detail at a time of momentous events in London--including the Great Fire and the plague--and also reveals (though not until its encoded language was deciphered in 1825) an uninhibited account of the author's private affairs..
Synopsis
Samuel Pepys was born in London in 1633 and died there in 1703. From 1661 to 1669, he kept a quotidian record of what he saw and heard and read, and whom he met. It is his only literary heritage. Richard Le Gallienne (1866-1947) was born in England. After serving as literary critic and contributor to the 1890s London quarterly Yellow Book, this prolific author of prose and verse took up residence in New York City. He was the father of Eva Le Gallienne. Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), the Scottish fiction writer, essayist and poet, authored such popular classics as Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes, and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde .
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- Bookseller
- Phillip J. Pirages Fine Books and Medieval Manuscripts (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- ST15557-26
- Title
- THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS
- Author
- PEPYS, SAMUEL
- Book Condition
- Used
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Heritage Press
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1942
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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