Author Name: Parker, Willis L.
Title: SAMUEL PEPYS' DIARY
Binding: Hard Cover
Book Condition: Very Good
Jacket Condition: No Jacket/fair Slipcase
Edition: Cameo Edition
Size: 8vo - over 8" - 9" Tall Octavo
Publisher: New York, NY Grosset & Dunlap 1932
Illustrator: Adler, Randolp
Seller ID: 009394
207 pp, purple cloth boards w/cameo of Johann Gutenberg on the cover, slipcase black w/pastedown on the side, slipcase worn at the corners w/some chipping of black covering on corners. Pepys was a clerk of the Navy Board, and the diary is an intimate record of his daily business, recreations, personal likes & dislikes, and domestic affairs. He talks of intrigues & corruption of the English Navy, political & social changes during Restoration, great plague & fire of London and social habits & customs of the middle & upper classes.
RECORD ENGLISH NAVY CLERK BOARD LITERATURE NON-FICTION BIOGRAPHY FOREIGN COUNTRIES HISTORY
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