Estimate: | £70 - £100 |
Hammer price: | £350 |
PEPYS, Samuel (1633-1703). Memoirs ... Comprising his Diary from 1659 to 1669 ... And a Selection from his Private Correspondence. Edited by Richard Braybrooke. Second Edition. London: Henry Colburn, 1828. 5 volumes, large 8vo (213 x 135mm). Plates and facsimile leaves, some folding (variable, sometimes quite heavy, spotting and staining). Attractively bound in contemporary olive polished calf gilt, spines elaborately gilt with red morocco lettering-pieces (extremities lightly rubbed). Provenance: Anthony Eden, 1st Earl of Avon (old armorial bookplate). (5)