[PEPYS, SAMUEL]. Everybody's Pepys: The Diary of Samuel Pepys 1660-1669. Abridged from the Complete Copyright Text and Edited by O. F. Morshead. London: G. Bell and Sons, MCMXXVII. [1927[.
REPRINT. Leather-bound; hardcover; octavo (19.5 x 13 x 3.5 cm); pp. xxiii, [1], 570. English text edited by O. F. Morshead, with illustrations throughout by Ernest H. Shepard. Beautifully bound by Riviere & Son in full tan crushed cape levant morocco gilt, front cover decorated in the "Kelliegram" style, with an elaborate pictorial onlay; all page edges gilt; marbled endpapers; half-title; decorative title-page; 60 illustrations; 4 maps of London in the 1660s at the rear, plus a rear index in double columns; printed footnotes. Condition: NEAR FINE. A wonderful, tight and clean copy. Trivial rubbing to extremities, an inscription to the front endpaper, and a bookplate to the front pastedown, otherwise a fine example. Exquisite.
Notes: The fourth impression, of Shepard's profusely illustrated edition. Everybody's Pepys was the first in a series of three popular abridgements of historical works; which was followed by Everybody's Boswell and Everybody's Lamb. All were illustrated by Shepard with rich attention to period detail. This copy, stunningly bound by Riviere & Son, with its elaborate pictorial onlay, is decorated in the "Kelliegram" style, one of the many innovations of the English commercial binding firm Kelly & Sons.
