The Diary of Samuel Pepys. (Large paper issue, bound by Zaehnsdorf)

Transcribed from the shorthand manuscript in the Pepysian Library Magdalene College Cambridge by the Rev. Mynors Bright. With Lord Braybrooke’s notes. Edited with additions by Henry B. Wheatley. London : George Bell & Sons, 1893-99. Number 230 of 250 special large paper copies. Ten volumes, octavo (235 x 175 mm), bound by Zaehnsdorf in handsome uniform half crimson crushed morocco over marbled papered boards ruled in gilt, spines with raised bands decorated and lettered in gilt; top edges gilt, fore- and bottom edges uncut; marbled pastedowns and endpapers; titles in red and black, 24 plates, one folding map, three folding genealogical charts; pastedowns with later ex libris labels of Nathaniel Cushing Nash and L. W. Jordan Jr.; clean and fresh throughout, a very fine set.

An exceptional set of the large paper issue of the first Wheatley edition, which for a century would remain the most comprehensive and faithful edition of Pepys’s Diary. It includes a volume of Pepysiana, as well as an index volume.