PEPYS, Samuel; Henry B. Wheatley [Editor].
The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Volumes I-VIII 1659-1669.
The Diary of Samuel Pepys Volumes I-VIII
London: George Bell & Sons LTD, 1926.
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Finely bound example of this famous firsthand account of the Restoration period. Octavo, three volumes, bound in three quarters morocco by Bayntun-Riviere with gilt titles and tooling to the spine, top edge gilt, marbled endpapers, tissue-guarded frontispiece, containing volumes I-VIII of The Diary of Samuel Pepys. Edited with additions by Henry B. Wheatley. In very good condition with sunning to the spine.
"Alexander conquered the world; but Pepys, with a keener, more selfish understanding of life, conquered a world for every sense" (Charles Whibley). "Pepys led a full, varied and voraciously-enjoyed life and clearly took pleasure in setting it all down in plain words. Unlike most frantically busy men, he had remarkable powers of observation" (Paul Johnson). "The bald truth about oneself, what we are all too timid to admit when we are not too dull to see it, that was what Pepys saw clearly and set down unsparingly" (Robert Louis Stevenson).
The Diary of Samuel Pepys: Volumes I-VIII 1659-1669.
$475.00
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