THE DIARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS: Clerk of the Acts and Secretary to the Admiralty. Transcribed by the Late Rev. Mynors Bright, from the Shorthand Manuscript in the Pepysian Library, Magdalene College, Cambridge.

Complete in eight volumes. Volumes I to IV dated 1904, Volumes V to VIII dated 1905. Handsomely bound in polished mottled tree calf by Riviere & Son. The boards decoratively bordered in gilt, the spines with five raised bands, two compartments titled in gilt to red and blue morocco labels, the remainder finely decorated in gilt, as are board edges. Marbled endpapers. Top edge gilt. Fore-edge and bottom edge untrimmed. Portrait frontispiece of Samuel Pepys in volume I. A better than very good set, the bindings square and firm, with rubbing to the extremities and spines, the boards with a few light scuffs. The contents, with the bookplate of William Strang Steel and shelving labels to the front pastedowns, are spotted to the first and last pages, closed text block edge and sporadically throughout all eight volumes.