Author: John Evelyn; Geoffrey Keynes [ed.]
Title: Memoires for My Grand-Son
Description: London, Nonesuch Press, 1926 . Hardback. A charming Limited Edition of this biographical work by English writer John Evelyn, written between 1704 and 1705. Number three-hundred and nine of one-thousand two-hundred and fifty Limited Edition copies of this work produced.Edited by Geoffrey Keynes, who began his career as a First World War surgeon, before making notable innovations in the fields of blood transfusion and breast cancer surgery. He was also a publishing scholar and bibliographer of English literature and English medical history, focusing primarily on William Blake and William Harvey.Famed diarist John Evelyn began this work at the age of eighty-four, when his grandson, also names John Evelyn, was twenty-two years old, and intended in this charming and brief memoir to provide advice 'offered by Age and Experience to Youth&apos. In the publisher's original limp paper vellum. Externally, lovely, with light marks to boards. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Very Good Indeed . Ill.: None. Very Good Indeed .

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