THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS Clerk of The Acts and Secretary to The Admiralty. Transcribed From The Shorthand Manuscript in the Pepysian Library &c

Eight volumes bound in three. Contemporary half blue morocco by Birdsall. Three raised bands, gilt ruled and decorated compartments, titles in gilt to the spines. Marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt. Portrait frontispiece in volume I. Index to the rear of the volume three. Printed on India paper. An attractive set, the bindings square and firm with only light rubbing at the tips of the faded spines. The contents with the attractive bookplate of a female previous owner to the front pastedown of each volume are otherwise clean and bright throughout.