Diary of Samuel Pepys M.A. F.R.S. Clerk of the Acts and Secretary to the Admiralty

Diary of Samuel Pepys M.A. F.R.S. Clerk of the Acts and Secretary to the Admiralty. Transcribed from the manuscript in the Pepysian Library Magdalene College Cambridge by The Rev. Mynors Bright M.A. Late Fellow and President of The College With Lord Braybrooke's Notes. Limited Edition 207/250 Large Paper Edition. Signed Binding of The Monastery Hill Bindery.

Author: Wheatley, Henry B (ed.) Pepys, Samuel

4to (6.625" x 9.125") 1893. 10 volumes. Large Paper Edition. Wheatley, Henry B. London: George Bell and Sons. Full hunter green with bright gilt multi ruled frame with fancy gilt filigree corners. Spine with five gilt decorated raised bands, gilt title in gilt framed second compartment, gilt vol# in gilt framed third compartment, heavy gilt filigree design filling the others. Doublure bindings with thick gilt decorated turn ins over hunter green moire silk, endpapers. Top edge gilt, deckled edges. Attestation page states "Only 250 copies of this Volume are printed on Large Paper, of which this is No. 207" with red and black printed publisher's colophon. Volume 1 with evident repair to gutters, front free flyleafs with bookmark of Nate B. Spingold. Engraved frontispieces, black and red title page. Minor wear to extremities with head of vol 8 spine chipped with tiny loss. Overall, a beautiful set of books.

From Wiki: Samuel Pepys FRS (/piːps/; 23 February 1633 – 26 May 1703) was an English diarist and naval administrator. He served as administrator of the Royal Navy and Member of Parliament and is most famous for the diary he kept for a decade. Pepys had no maritime experience, but he rose to be the Chief Secretary to the Admiralty under both King Charles II and King James II through patronage, diligence, and his talent for administration. His influence and reforms at the Admiralty were important in the early professionalisation of the Royal Navy. The detailed private diary that Pepys kept from 1660 until 1669 was first published in the 19th century and is one of the most important primary sources for the English Restoration period. It provides a combination of personal revelation and eyewitness accounts of great events, such as the Great Plague of London, the Second Dutch War, and the Great Fire of London.

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