1926-29 Private Correspondence and Miscellaneous Papers of Samuel Pepys

Description

First Edition, Publishers' Original Binding

Containing the private correspondence and miscellaneous writings of Samuel Pepys, with a volume of further correspondence, covering from 1662 to 1703. From papers in the possession of J. Pepys Cockerell. 

Edited by J. R. Tanner. 

First edition, third impression of vol. I, II, and first printing of additional volume. 

Samuel Pepys's diaries are recognised to this day as an important primary source for the Restoration period as they contain personal revelations and a witness of important events, such as the Great Plague of London, the Second Dutch War, and the Great Fire of London. 

Frontispiece to vols. I and II as called for. 

Ex libris from the library of Robert Mackenzie Marshall, with bookplate to front pastedowns.