Samuel Pepys. The Man in the Making [with] The Years of Peril [with] The Saviour of the Navy. [The trilogy complete.]
( Samuel PEPYS ) BRYANT, Arthur
THE PEPYS TRILOGY COMPLETE IN FULL MOROCCO
Published: Cambridge, 1933-38
Stock code: 47477
Price: £1,200.00
3 vols., 8vo., First Editions, with 3 portrait frontispieces, 13 plates, and front and rear endpaper maps in first volume;
handsomely bound in full dark red crushed morocco, sides with gilt frame border, backs with raised bands, second and fourth compartments lettered and ruled in gilt, all other compartments tooled in gilt, gilt tops, hand-made endpapers, ribbon markers, custom-made slip-case, an elegant copy ideal as a gift or for presentation.
An elegant set of one of the outstanding biographies of the twentieth century. The trilogy comprises 'The Man in the Making' (1933), 'The Years of Peril' (1935) and 'The Saviour of the Navy' (1938). NMML Catalogue II, Part 1, 1194-1196; Albion, p.215.