The Diary of Samuel Pepys - Complete 9 volume set
by Pepys, Samuel
- Used
- very good
- Hardcover
- Condition
- Very Good/No Jacket
- Seller
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Midland, Michigan, United States
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About This Item
Boston & New York: Brainard Publishing Co, 1892. Hardcover. Very Good/No Jacket. Edition de Luxe No. 230 of 1000 copies, lovely crushed morocco with decorative gilt spines. Modest rubbing to edges, former owner bookplate to front pastedown endpapers. Edited by Henry B. Wheatley. Frontis portrait, illustrations. Top edges gilt. Handsome set in leather.
Synopsis
Samuel Pepys was born in London in 1633 and died there in 1703. From 1661 to 1669, he kept a quotidian record of what he saw and heard and read, and whom he met. It is his only literary heritage. Richard Le Gallienne (1866-1947) was born in England. After serving as literary critic and contributor to the 1890s London quarterly Yellow Book, this prolific author of prose and verse took up residence in New York City. He was the father of Eva Le Gallienne. Robert Louis Stevenson (1850-1894), the Scottish fiction writer, essayist and poet, authored such popular classics as Treasure Island, Kidnapped, Travels with a Donkey in the Cevennes, and The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde .
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- Bookseller
- Graver & Pen Rare Books
(US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 012520
- Title
- The Diary of Samuel Pepys - Complete 9 volume set
- Author
- Pepys, Samuel
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Very Good
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Brainard Publishing Co
- Place of Publication
- Boston & New York
- Date Published
- 1892
- Note
- May be a multi-volume set and require additional postage.
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- Morocco
- Morocco is a style of leather book binding that is usually made with goatskin, as it is durable and easy to dye. (see also...
- Rubbing
- Abrasion or wear to the surface. Usually used in reference to a book's boards or dust-jacket.
- Bookplate
- Highly sought after by some collectors, a book plate is an inscribed or decorative device that identifies the owner, or former...
- Jacket
- Sometimes used as another term for dust jacket, a protective and often decorative wrapper, usually made of paper which wraps...
- Edges
- The collective of the top, fore and bottom edges of the text block of the book, being that part of the edges of the pages of a...
- Gilt
- The decorative application of gold or gold coloring to a portion of a book on the spine, edges of the text block, or an inlay in...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
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