Diary and Correspondence of John Evelyn, to which is subjoined the Private Correspondence between King Charles I and Sir Edward Nicholas and between Sir Edward Hyde and Sir Richard Browne
EVELYN, John
Edited, from the Original MSS at Wotton.
Published: George Routledge, [1906]
Stock code: 14922
Price: £70.00
8vo., First Edition, endpapers lightly spotted; original olive buckram, back gilt with red leather label ruled and lettered in gilt, brown top, black endpapers, uncut, covers mildly age-soiled else a very good, clean, firm copy.
With the early twentieth century armorial bookplate of William Bradbrooke, and trade ticket of Blackwell's of Oxford, on front paste-down. The best single-volume collection, predating de Beer's definitive six-volume edition of 1955. Very scarce.