PEPYS, Samuel.

Memoires Relating to the State of the Royal Navy of England, for Ten Years, Determin’d December 1688.

London: Printed for Ben Griffin, 1690.

First Edition of the Author's Only Acknowledged Publication

[PEPYS, Samuel]. Memoires Relating to the State of the Royal Navy of England, for Ten Years, Determin’d December 1688. London: Printed for Ben Griffin, 1690.

First edition with the Griffin-Keble imprint. Small octavo (6 11/16 x 4 5/16 inches; 170 x 110mm). [4], 214, [18], [2, blank] pp. Engraved frontispiece portrait by R. White after G. Kneller. With a large folding sheets of accounts.

Contemporary mottled calf, rebacked with original spine and recornered. Edges speckled red. Boards tooled in blind. Rear hinge professionally repaired. Some browning from glue to endpapers, otherwise internally a very clean copy. A 1 3/4 inch closed tear to leaf M4 (page 167), not affecting text. Handsomely housed in a morocco backed chemise, stamped and lettered in gilt and a slipcase with morocco edge.

"This is the diarist's only acknowledged publication. Upon this he lavished a great deal of thought and care. It represents a side of Pepy's life which is apt to be ignored." (Pforzheimer 793).

Grolier, Wither to Prior, 662. Pforzheimer 793.

HBS 65158.

$3,000.

Price: $3,000.00

Item #65158