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London : George Bell and Sons, 1919. First Edition. Hardcover. Worn copy in the original title-blocked cloth. Panels are dust-toned as with age. Spine bands are worn. Physical description: 385 pages. Subjects: London & Middlesex. 1600-1699. Social history.

London: G. Bell & Sons. Fine copies. 1938. Later prt.. hardcover. 8vo, 3254 pp., Nice, bright complete set containing eight volumes bound as three and printed on India paper., Transcribed by the late Rev. Minors Bright, M.A. from the shorthand manuscript in the Pepysian Library, Magdalene College, Cambridge. Edited with additions by Henry D Wheatley. .

New York: Random House, 1950. Hardcover. Very Good. Reprint. Two volume set. Octavos. 1114pp., 1244pp. Transcribed by the Late Rev. Mynors Bright, M.A from the Shorthand Manuscript in the Pepysian Library, Magdalene College, Cambridge. Dark blue cloth with spine titles. Cloth mildly soiled, spines sunned, still a very good set and housed in the original, albeit fair only slipcase with top panel detached but present.

London: G. bell and Sons, Ltd, 1952. Third printing of the Thin Paper Edition. Hardcover. Good. Format is approximately 5.25 inches by 7.25 inches. 3 Book Set (Book I includes Volumes I-III, 1659-1663, lix, [1], 371, [1] pages); Book II includes Volumes IV-VI, 1664-1667, [2], 385, [1] pages; and Book III includes Volumes VII-VIII, 1667-1669, Index. [4], 514 pages. Footnotes. Some board weakness and some cover wear and soiling noted. This edition was first published in 10 volumes between 1893 and 1899. It was reissued in 8 volumes in 1904. The thin paper edition was first issued in 1946. Samuel Pepys FRS (23 February 1633 - 26 May 1703) was an administrator of the navy of England and Member of Parliament who is most famous for the diary he kept for a decade while still a relatively young man. Pepys rose to be the Chief Secretary to the Admiralty under both King Charles II and King James II through patronage, hard work, and his talent for administration. His influence and reforms at the… Read More

London: George Bell and Sons, 1910. Reissue. Hard Cover. Good/No Jacket. 0x0x0. Corners a bit rubbed, bindings of a few volumes shaken, boards lightly soiled, a few pages foxed. 1910 Hard Cover. Complete in nine hardcover volumes. Blue cloth. Engraved frontispieces and plates. lix, 342, 4, [2]; 407; 371; 424, 4, 2; 424; 385, 4, 2; v, 387, 4, 2; ix, 313, 4, 2; xi, 500, 2 pp. This edition includes a Pepysiana volume with appendices and an index, plus a fold-out map of London in Pepys's time, three fold-out genealogical tables, and plates, including a photograph of the six manuscript volumes that composed the original work. Samuel Pepys was an English naval administrator and Member of Parliament, who is now most famous for the diary he kept for a decade while still a relatively young man. Although Pepys had no maritime experience, he rose by patronage, hard work and his talent for administration, to be the Chief Secretary to the Admiralty under both King Charles II and subsequently King James II.… Read More

London: G. Bell and Sons Ltd., 1917. The Diary of Samuel Pepys M.A. F.R.S. in Ten Volumes (Vols. 1-8 with Pepysiana and Index). Pages generally clean and bright, in very good condition, with occasional spotting or foxing; bindings firm; discoloration and staining to the blue colour of the boards. Please inquire for photos of condition. Please note that, due to the weight of these books, extra charges will be required for overseas shipping.. Hard. Good. 8vo.

London: G. Bell and Sons, 1928. "With Lord Braybrooke's Notes". Reprint dates 1928-1935. Lightly rubbed and bumped, slightly shaken, some gutters cracked, previous owner inscriptions to ffeps, occasional pencil mark to margin, otherwise clean and tidy overall.. Cloth. Good/No Jacket. 8vo.

A little foxing here and there, and some fraying of the spine heads and heels, but all pages clean and tight. One foldout has two small tears.Arguably the greatest diary in English by possibly the world's greatest diarist. This is Henry B Wheatley's 1896/1897 10-volume publication (the diary in 8 volumes, plus the index published in 1924 and the Pepysiana published in 1928). This is the diary the world knew until Robert Latham's and William Matthews' nine-volume definitive edition of 1970-1983.These eight volumes of the diary belonged to and bear the bookplates of Duke Georg Alexander of Mecklenburg-Strelitz (1859-1909), eldest son of Grand Duchess Catherine Mikhailovna and a cousin of Emperor Alexander III of Russia. He was a Major General in the Russian Army, a skilled musician and the founder of the Mecklenburg Quartet.

G. Bell and Sons, Ltd. Cambridge: Delighton Bell and Co, 1920. Leather Bound. Good. 8vo. Light blue cloth with blue leather spine and corners. 5 raised spines and 6 compartments. Gilt lettering and flourishes over dark tan calf leather. Marbled pastel endpages. Copperplate portrait frontispiece of Pepys with tissue protector opposite of title page. Composed between 1660 and 1669, Pepys's diary boasts an amazing record of life in London during that time, including accounts of the Great Plague of 1665 and the Great Fire of 1666. Minor fading to cloth on boards. Minimal discoloration to pages and endpages. Slight cracking to spines. Gilt remains clear and in tact.

George Bell & Sons, 1893-1899. 10 vols. 8vo (8½ x 6 ins). Contemporary full blue calf, spines elaborately gilt tooled in six compartments with contrasting labels, boards with triple gilt ruled fillet borders and gilt tooled returns, top edges gilt, marbled endpapers (some labels missing; worn at spines and edges of boards, and outer joints rather weakened). Pp. various, illus with b&w plates with tissue-guards (previous owner's armorial bookplate on front paste-downs; no inscriptions).

London, Bells ans Sons, 1928. 8°, je ein Fronti.. je ca 360 S., Orig.-OLwd goldgeprägt., Min. gebrauchspurig, schönes Exemplare. Text: engl.- Samuel Pepys (* 23. Februar 1633 in London; † 26. Mai 1703 in Clapham bei London) war Staatssekretär im englischen Marineamt (Chief Secretary to the Admiralty), Präsident der Royal Society und Abgeordneter des englischen Unterhauses, ist der Nachwelt aber vor allem als Tagebuchautor und Chronist der Restaurationsepoche unter König Karl II. von England bekannt. Das sowohl privates, frivoles als auch politisches umfassende Tagebuch, das er von 1660 bis 1669 führte, gehört zu den wichtigsten Quellen für diese Zeit und zu den am häufigsten zitierten literarischen Werken des englischen Sprachraums.- „… die meisten Männer, die es in der Welt zu etwas bringen, vergessen, sich zu vergnügen während sie ihr Vermögen machen. Sie sparen es sich auf, bis sie es geschafft haben, und dann ist es zu spät, es mit Freude zu genießen.“Tagebuch, 10.… Read More

London: George Bell & Sons, 1893. First Edition Thus. Half Morocco. Marbled Boards. . Very Good.

New York: Dood., Mead & Company, 1885. 10 vols. 12mo. Bound in three quarters crimson morocco and cloth sides, t.e.g.. Almost fine. 10 vols. 12mo.

London: G. Bell and Sons Ltd. 1920 - 1924. Reprints. Complete in ten volumes. Handsome contemporary half blue morocco in Hatchards binding. Five raised bands, gilt ruled and decorated compartments, titles in gilt to the spines. Top edge gilt. Each volume has a different portrait frontispiece with black and white plates. Index in Volume IX and supplementary Volume X. Fold out maps in Volume X (Corrected Pepys pedigree recently recorded in the college of arms. Descendants of Pauline Pepys. London and Westminster in the time of Pepys.) and Volume VI (John Evelyn's plan of the Dutch fleet in the Medway June 1667). An attractive set, the bindings square and firm, with some rubbing to the slightly faded spines, panel corners and the odd area along panel edges. Some white marks to the cloth panels on a few of the volumes, whilst the leather is lightly rubbed and scratched in places. All ten volumes contain the bookplate of Sir Ferdinand Michael Kroyer - Kielberg to the front pastedown, with the contents… Read More