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PEPYS, SAMUEL. Memoirs ... and a selection from his private correspondence, edited by Richard, Lord Braybrooke, London: Henry Colburn, 1825, 2 vols., 4to, A COSWAY STYLE BINDING BY BAYNTUN (RIVIERE), navy blue morocco, covers with gilt fillet borders and gilt anchors at corners, EACH UPPER COVER SET WITH AN OVAL PORTRAIT MINIATURE, of Pepys (vol. I) and Charles II (vol.II), within a gilt hatched morocco frame, spines in six gilt compartments with naval emblems, bright blue watered silk doublures and liners (edges faded), g.e., some foxing and offsetting, FIRST EDITION, steel-engraved plates. (2)