In the original dust jacket. Green cloth binding with red title plate and gilt title on the spine. Gilt emblem on the front board. Dimensions are for one volume.

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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Fine. 1st Edition. Complete in eleven (11) volumes, uniformly bound in polished green cloth-effect boards, lettered in gold foil with red title field. Vols. 1-8 are composed by Pepys’ diary 1660-67 (one year per volume), with Vol. 9 providing 1668-69, Vol. 10 a companion, and Vol. 11 an index. Several of the volumes show slight age-tanning; otherwise, the set is as issued. A collector-grade set with only the slightest of faults.

Samuel Pepys FRS (23 February 1633 – 26 May 1703) was an English diarist and naval administrator. He served as administrator of the Royal Navy and Member of Parliament, but is most remembered today for the diary he kept for almost a decade. Though he had no maritime experience, Pepys rose to be the Chief Secretary to the Admiralty under both King Charles II and King James II through patronage, diligence, and his talent for administration. His influence and reforms at the Admiralty were important in the early professionalization of the Royal Navy.

The detailed private diary that Pepys kept from 1660 until 1669 was first published in the 19th century and is one of the most important primary sources for the English Restoration period. It provides a combination of personal revelation and eyewitness accounts of great events, such as the Great Plague of London, the Second Dutch War, and the Great Fire of London.