PEPYS, Samuel — THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS

London & New York. G. Bell and Sons Ltd./Harcourt, Brace and Co.. India Paper Edition. Eight volumes bound in three (5" x 7-1/2") in 3/4 navy blue morocco leather and cloth with gilt-decorated and lettered spines with 4 raised bands. Edited with additions by Henry B. Wheatley. The most revered personal history ever written in English, Pepys's Diaries cover only nine years, 1660 to 1669, but very interesting years in England. Plague, fire, and war are some of the events Pepys lived through and recorded. Richard Garnett says no work of the kind in the world's literature can for a moment be compared with THE DIARY, which he calls "the most valuable document extant for the understanding of the times." For Andrew Lang, Pepys is "perpetually the most amusing of gossips, and, of all who have gossiped about themselves, the only one who tells the truth." The Diary was written in a private cipher and remained unreadable for more than a hundred and fifty years.. Spines sunned otherwise about Fine