Search Results: memoirs of samuel pepys by pepys samuel

Henry Colburn, 1828. 2nd . Full-Leather. Good/N/a. Book has pages sewn in. Pebbled leather cover with with paper title block pasted on. There is a tear at the head of the spine and corners are bumped. General age related wear. Map from 1667 inserted at page 16. This is one of a set of five.

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GB: Henry Colburn, 1825. This item consists ONLY of the GENERAL INDEX TO THE FIRST VOLUME OF THE DIARY. It has no title page or date. The original text of 49 pages is INTERLEAVED throughout and has a large number of neat handwritten additions both in the text and on the interleaves. Body of text is quite clean but the endpapers are heavily dust marked. Half leather binding is very worn. . Hardback. Good/No DW.

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London: Henry Colburn, 1828. Second Edition . Hardcover. Very Good. A very good five volume set which has been rebound in a quite attractive green quarter leather binding with marbled boards. The binding is let down by paper spine labels which could be replaced. Volume 1 has two bookplates including that of a college but there are no markings in the books. New end-papers. Some foxing especially to frontispiece of each volume but overall a reasonably clean set. Seven portrait plates and four folding plates all as called for. These Memoirs comprise Pepys' diary from 1659 to 1669 and a selection from his private correspondence edited by Richard Lord Braybrooke. [Please note extra postage will be required for this set].

London: Henry Colburn, 1828. Second Edition . Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket Issued. 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall. Five Volumes 8vo, edited by Richard Lord Braybrook,original cloth backed boards, all plates and pages present, cloth spines and labels rubbed and chipped with some loss, hinges a little weak, internally very good.

Henry Colburn, 1828. Hardback (No Dust Wrapper.). Poor. Spine strips on all five volumes are heavily browned and scuffed with the title lables near rubbed off. Damage to the spine ends of Volume I with hinge showing at pp. 289. All volumes spotted throughout, heavier to start and end. Possibly a rebound set with material differences to the binding but not the text.. ### IMPORTANT: Weighing 4kg. shipping beyond the shores of my utopian country will be by ParcelForce World Wide, and starts at £15.00 Europe/£30.00 Elsewhere (less the displayed cost) for a 5-7 day service, tracked, duties unpaid. ### Hardback. Physically 9” x 5¾” (4 kg); Edited by Richard Lord Braybrooke; 2nd edition in 5 volumes. [First Published: 1825] Illustrated by way of: Portrait to the frontispiece to each volume; Facsimiles (some fold-outs); Plates; Genealogical Tables; lix, viii. 376, 451, 446, 461, 485. || The book is on my shelves and will be carefully packed and posted from the pastoral paradise… Read More

Henry Colburn, 1828. Hardcover. Fine/No jacket. 2nd edition. Five volumes, expanded from the original two. "... secretary to the admiralty in the reigns of Charles II and James II. Comprising his diary from 1659 to 1669. Decyphered by the Rev. John Smith, A.B., from the original shorthand ms. in the Pepsian Library, and a selection from his private correspondence." Rebound in 3/4 leath with marbled boards.

London: Richard Bentley, 1841. [Letters] FIRST EDITION. Two volumes. Octavo (24 x 16cm), pp.[4] 37-456; pp.[4]; 367; [1]. With a frontispiece engraving of the author to volume I. Publisher's brown cloth with gilt titles to spines and blind decoration to boards. All edges untrimmed, later endpapers. Some spotting but generally clean. cloth a little worn to joints, chipping to spine ends, corners bumped. Very good. Following the first publication of Pepys's Diaries in 1825, Smith went on to publish this interesting collection of letters.

London: Henry Colburn, 1828. Leather. Very Good. 9" by 6". Various. A charming five volume set of the second edition of Pepy's renowned memoirs, published for the first time, detailing life in the 1660s. This is a second edition of the first publication of Pepy's diary. Painstakingly written out in standard English by John Smith, it was edited by Lord Braybrooke and published in two volumes in 1825. Unfortunately for Smith, he laboured with his transcription, oblivious to the fact that Pepys had a key to his shorthand system stored on a shelf just above where the diaries were stored; he only discovered this when he had nearly finished the work.Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) was an English politician, bibliophile and author. He kept a diary for ten years between 1660 and 1669 which chronicles life during the English Restoration, and as well as Pepys' personal and day-to-day life, it documents important events such as the Great Plague of London, the Great Fire of London and the Second Dutch War. It was… Read More

Henry Colburn, 1828. hardcover. Very Good. 0x0x0. 1828 second edition (first Octavo edition), Henry Colburn (London), five 5 7/8 x 8 7/8 inches tall volumes, 3/4 red leather over orange cloth boards, five raised bands and gilt ruling and lettering to spines, top page edges gilt, illustrated with fine engraved portrait frontispieces and other engravings and facsimiles (some folding), index, [v.1] lx, 376; [v.2] 451; [v.3] 446; [v.4] 461; [v.5] viii, 485 pp. (2,287 pages total). Very slight soiling, rubbing and edgewear to covers. A few isolated instances of very slight creasing or edgewear to a page here and there. But altogether an exceptionally fine set of the Braybrooke edition - clean, bright and unmarked, in a splendid binding. Note that this is a heavy and oversized set, so additional postage will be required for international or priority orders. ~W~ [10.5P] The diary of Samuel Pepys is probably the most famous diary in the English language. Begun in January 1660 and finishing in May 1669, it… Read More

London: Henry Colburn, New Burlington Street, 1828. Second Edition and First Octavo edition. Illustrated. Printed by S. & R. Bentley. 5 vols. 8vo. Bound in full tan almost contemporary calf, elborately gilt spines, witth red and brown labels, marbled edges, minor rubbing. Very handsome. Second Edition and First Octavo edition. Illustrated. Printed by S. & R. Bentley. 5 vols. 8vo.