John Evelyn; Geoffrey Keynes [ed.] — Memoires for My Grand-Son

London, Nonesuch Press, 1926. Hardback. A charming Limited Edition of this biographical work by English writer John Evelyn, written between 1704 and 1705. Housed in the publisher's original glassine and slip case. Number three-hundred and thirty-three of one-thousand two-hundred and fifty Limited Edition copies of this work produced.Edited by Geoffrey Keynes, who began his career as a First World War surgeon, before making notable innovations in the fields of blood transfusion and breast cancer surgery. He was also a publishing scholar and bibliographer of English literature and English medical history, focusing primarily on William Blake and William Harvey.Famed diarist John Evelyn began this work at the age of eighty-four, when his grandson, also names John Evelyn, was twenty-two years old, and intended in this charming and brief memoir to provide advice 'offered by Age and Experience to Youth&apos.Housed in the publisher's original glassine and slip case. In the publisher's original paper vellum, with glassine and marbled paper covered slip case. Externally, excellent, with light spotting to boards. Glassine in very good condition indeed condition, though age toned, with small closed tears to back strip and small losses to back strip head and tail, and with closed tear to tail of rear wrap. Slip case in excellent edition. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine .