Description and condition:

Green boards hardback, dustcover, small 4to, 240pp, index, colour and b/w illustrations.

Very good with nice bright clean pages throughout. In good or better dustcover with lightly sunned spine.

Contents:

"The present edition - lavishly illustrated from a wealth of contemporary material (some of it from Pepys's own collection of engravings at Cambridge) - is meant for the reader who will welcome the chance of having a representative selection. It contains about one-twelfth of the original 1,300,000 words, and is so designed that the flavour and variety of the original is retained. With his unquenchable joy in life and his endless curiosity, Pepys is the perfect diarist for the general reader. In his pages the public events of the 1660s - the politics of the Restoration, the Dutch War, the Plague, the Fire of London - are interwoven with a richly diverting account of his colourful private life. Perhaps no one else in the whole of English history has transmitted his experience so vividly to posterity."