Diary of Samuel Pepys

This diary, kept from 1660 to 1669, records the daily life of a rising Navy Office clerk in Restoration London. Pepys notes work at the office, plays, meals, music, his marriage to Elizabeth, and his own appetites and fears. Public events run through the same pages: the return of Charles II, the Dutch war, the plague year, and the Fire of London. The voice is private, abbreviated, and mixed with accounts and lists. The book is a first-person chronicle of a decade, not a later history of the Restoration and not a continuous memoir rewritten for print.

Quarter bound in dark brown Nigerian goatskin with gilt spine titling and hand marbled boards by Ann Muir. Frontispiece art work in each volume except the Index. Photos of original manuscript and three line-drawn maps in volume I. Pepys family tree and line drawn maps of Thames Estuary and London in 1660s in volume X. Zerkall cream laid endpapers. Printed on Caxton wove paper. Purple page marker ribbons. Housed in a wax-finished oak case or individually slipcased.