Author: PEYPS, SAMUEL (1633-1703). LATHAM, ROBERT (1912-1995). Title: Pepy's Diary: Selected and Edited by Robert Latham. Volume 1: 1660-1663. Volume 2: 1664-1666. Volume 3: 1667-1669. Three Volume Set.
Description: Roy. 8vo; Vol. I. pp. xlviii, 337, (13); Vol. II. pp. viii, 372; Vol. III. pp. viii, 374; illustrated endpapers, text illustrated with numerous plates some in colour, 6 maps, 2 genealogical tables, further reading, glossary, index, each bound in its original blue cloth, titles letttered in gilt on spines, gilt decoration on spines and upper boards, housed in original slipcase with illustrated sides, fine set London; The Folio Society; 1996. The manuscript of the diary survives in the Pepys library at Magdalene College, Cambridge, and consists of six leather-bound volumes neatly written in ink on un-ruled paper. The writing is in shorthand, with occasional words (mostly personal and place names) in longhand.
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