The Diary of Samuel Pepys M.A. F.R.S. Comprising His Diary from 1659 to 1669, and a Selection from His Private Correspondence

London: Frederick Warne and Co. The Chandos Library, 1873. First Edition Thus. Half Morocco. Marbled Boards. Very Good. With an ownership inscription of Percival Lowell from the Boston Brahmin family and also a notable astronomer. It was given to him as a Christmas gift in 1875. N.d., 1873. 8vo. 17.5 by 11.5 cm. xvi, 815 pp. Frontis plate with eight cameo portraits. The important seventeenth century diary, best known for its descriptions of the Great Fire of London, the Great Plague, and its chronicling of the Restoration of the Monarch, was first published in very abridged form in 1825. It wouldn't be until 1893 that a ten volume edition edited by Henry (truncated) B. Wheatley offered the bulk of the diary. The half morocco binding has gilt decoration in the spine compartments. Marbled paper pastedown and endpapers, with same marbling ornamenting all edges. Light rubbing in a few spots of the binding. The leaves are quite age toned or browned, as inevitable with the type of paper used, but are clean otherwise. (Inventory #: 20243)