Tomalin, Claire — Samuel Pepys: the unequalled self

Penguin Viking. 1st edition. As new. As new. Nearly new; slight differential shrinkage of text pages relative to plates. A fascinating account of a busy naval civil servant, part of which was recorded in unrivalled detail by a man with an utterly dispassionate view of his own passionate life. The book deservedly won the 2002 Whitbread Prize. xxxix, 499 pp., 32 pp. of monochrome plates.