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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.

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.

(Printed by S. and R. Bentley for) Henry Colburn, London: ., 1825 Two Volumes. LACKS Frontis in both volumes. Illustrated with text portrait in volume one. Marbled endpapers. Bookplate of Rev. Charles Wood in both volumes. Folio. 305mm. Original full green leather bindings. Boards ruled in gold. Front board fragile on volume one. Corners and edges rubbed and worn with some loss. Original leather spine labels on volume one. Volume two labels chipped with small loss. Raised bands. Head of spine on volume one torn without loss. Early re-backing of spines. First Edition. "Pepys is marvelously entertaining. The times and the man peep out in a thousand odd circumstances and amusing expressions. The ablest picture of the Age." - Alibone. This Scarce First Edition has been sadly "Grangerized" and wants many of the portrait plates Hardbound. Perhaps the most famous diary in the English language. Please email us directly about postal charges on these sets. **PRICE MUCH REDUCED! ENGSETS BX 5… Read More

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, 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.

London: Henry Colburn, 1825. First Edition. quarto, 2 volumes, illustrated with 14 engraved plates, including 2 frontispieces. Contemporary full leather boards of diced Russia, rebacked to style in brown calf. Internally, quite clean, but for off-setting from the portraits, one portrait with small marginal stain; brown stains on pp. 239-243. Overall a very good copy.

London: Henry Colburn, 1825. First edition. leather_bound. Contemporary full brown calf rebacked. Very good in custom very good cloth slipcase. 2 vols. 498 [49], 309 pages. 30.5 x 24 cm. Eight engraved portraits, and six plates ( one a facsimile of Pepy's handwriting and short-hand cypher, one double page (folding map,) This diary, written in a very small hand in six volumes, was included among his books at Magdalene. Pepys wrote it in Shelton's system of tachygraphy published in 1641, which he embellished with foreign languages and by varieties of his own invention. The diary, never intended for the public [he tells of kicking his cook, blackening his wife's eye and taking bribes] is a compelling witness of the times as well as Restoration politics. Extensive Index to The Dairy. GROLIER 100 P.173. HAZEN (Walpole 1750). Armorial bookplates of George Bramwell Baker, offsetting of plates to text, internally generally clean with some minor toning mostly marginal, raised bands, spine panels gilt… Read More

London: Henry Colburn, 1825. Large 4to, 2 vols. (11 3/4 x 9 5/8 inches). [2], xlii, 498, [2], xlix; [4], 348, [2], vii, [1], [3]-311pp. Engraved frontispiece in each volume and 11 engraved plates (one folding)., plus a map of the Action at Sheerness with the Dutch Fleet, including a facsimile of Pepys special short-hand, a family tree, and fine portraits of Pepys and his wife Elizabeth. Three quarter dark green morocco by Zaehndorf, marbled paper boards, marbled endpapers. A very fine first edition of Pepys' diary. Samuel Pepys, the Secretary to the Admiralty under Charles II and James II, began keeping a diary at the age of 27 and filled six volumes before ending it nine years later. The diary, originally written in code, was housed in the Magdalene College library until the Rev. John Smith, of St. Johns Cambridge, deciphered it between 1819 and 1822, and it was published in 1825. As a leading official in the admiralty for over a decade, Pepys was in touch with some of the most influential men in… Read More

First Edition. Complete in two quarto volumes, modern full leather bindings, but retaining original marbled pastedowns and endpapers with ownership bookplates of Sir Henry St. John Mildmay (Dogmersfield Library) whose library was auctioned in London in 1907. Edited by Lord Braybrooke using John Smith's transcription of the original diary. Pepys diary gave historians important insights into the Restoration of the British Monarchy, the Anglo-Dutch war, The Great Plague and the Great Fire of London. Illustrated with 13 engraved plates as called for, no half-titles. An attractive set, some pages foxed, frontis of volume one with some staining.

London: Henry Colburn, 1825. First edition. Leather. Very Good Indeed. 12" by 9.5". Various. The first full published edition of Samuel Pepys' historically important diary, an immense document of the 1670s, an interesting era of British history. The first edition thus of this work, being the first published edition of Pepys' diary in full.Complete in two volumes.The historically important diaries of Samuel Pepys.Volume I illustrated with a frontispiece, and nine plates.Volume II illustrated with a frontispiece, one double-paged map, and three plates.Collated, complete.Pepys' diaries was kept from 1660 to 1669, and it is now considered to be one of the most important primary sources of the English Restoration.Pepys was the Chief Secretary to the Admiralty under both Kings Charles II and James II. His diaries is a brilliant historical resource for the English Restoration.The diaries are noted for its eyewitness accounts of great events, including the Great Plague of London, the Great Fire of London,… Read More

London: Henry Colburn, 1825. First edition. Leather. Very Good Indeed. 12" by 9.5". Not Stated. The first printed edition of this famous diary, and therefore contemporaneous account of the fire of London. Edited by Lord Braybrooke using John Smith's transcription of the original diary. Illustrated, with a frontispiece of Pepys and a further seven plates to volume I. With a frontispiece and four plates to volume II. With the half-titles to both volumes. With the bookplate of Sir John Smith, Bart, to the front pastedown. This is the first published edition of Pepys' diary in full. Lord Braybrooke, Richard Griffin, is the editor of this edition. He was a British Whig politician who wrote several historical works and was president of the Camden Society for several years. He used John Smith's transcription of the diary for this publication. John Smith was the first person to decipher the diary in its entirety. Previously small sections had been deciphered. It transpired that Pepys' original… Read More

London: Harry Colburn, 1825. [Fine Binding]. Two volumes, complete. Full blue crushed morocco with hand-painted portrait miniatures of Samuel Pepys and Mrs. Pepys framed in seed pearls, ashes of roses moire doublures and endpapers, exaggerated raised bands, gilt titles with ornate tooled compartments, front and rear boards ornately ruled and tooled, all edges gilt, housed in two custom felt-lined clamshell boxes, (12 x 9.5 inches). First Edition, Printed by S. and R. Bentley, Dorset Street. SIGNED BINDING "Bound by Bayntun (Riviere), Bath, England." Volume 1: engraved frontispiece portrait of Pepys (Kneller/Bragg), printed title-page with Pepys' crossed anchor device; contents, list of plates: [i]-xlii; pp. [1]-498; index title-page, + index: [i]-xlix. Volume 1 illustrated with 8 engraved plates, including Pepys/Impington family pedigrees. Volume 2: frontispiece engraving of Pepys' Library in York Buildings (Nevill/Cooper), printed title-page with device; pp. [1]-311; Volume 2… Read More