MEMOIRS OF SAMUEL PEPYS

 

PEPYS, Samuel.  MEMOIRS OF SAMUEL PEPYS.  Five volumes.                         

London: Henry Colburn, 1828. 8vo. Contemporary quarter-calf.  Text plus 11 plates. Second edition.

This was the first octavo edition to contain Pepy's diaries, written in a shorthand code first deciphered in the early nineteenth century.  A nice set.

 

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