Peter Bichsel   Fine Books

Pepys, Samuel. Everybody’s Pepys. The Diary of S. P. 1660–1669. Abridged from the Complete Text and Edited by O. F. Morshead.

With 58 drawings on plates and 2 drawings in the text by Ernest H. Shepard and with four maps at the end. XXIII, (1), 570 pp. Large 8vo. Red grained full morocco over 5 raised bands, gilt lettered spine and gitl fillets framing boards and in outer edges. Collector’s monogram on spine and collector’s armorial supralibros (signed Asprey and Sangorsky & Sutcilffe). Orig. illus. front cover bound in. – London, G. Bell and Sons, 1926.

Large paper edtion, limited to 350 hand-numbered copies, signed by the illustrator Ernest Howard Shepard (1879–1976) worldfamous illustrator of „Winnie-the-Pooh“. Engr. heraldic ex-libris on inner front board. – Very fine copy, privately bound in an elegant English masterbinding. – Best.-Nr. 21020