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, in the publisher's original glassine and slip case. Number seven-hundred and sixteen out 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.With the former owner's inscription of Patricia Malcolm Scott to the front free endpaper. In the publisher's original limp paper vellum binding, with original glassine and marbled paper covered slip case. Externally, fine. Inscription to front free endpaper. Losses and chipping to the head of the glassine. Front board of slip case detached, with remaining boards of slip case starting. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Near Fine . Ill.: None. Near Fine/Good Only.