PEPYS, Samuel. Memoires Relating to the State of the Royal Navy of England... [London]: [N.p.], 1690. FIRST EDITION, with the imprint "Printed Anno MDCXC" intended for private distribution. With the usual manuscript corrections.
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PEPYS, Samuel (1633-1703). Memoires Relating to the State of the Royal Navy of England... [London]: [N.p.], 1690.
8vo. Title printed in red and black, folding letterpress table (some toning). Contemporary calf (front hinge starting, toning, front free endpaper partially disbound but present, lacking portrait frontispiece). Provenance: Ownership inscriptions on front free endpaper.
FIRST EDITION, with the imprint "Printed Anno MDCXC" intended for private distribution. With the usual manuscript corrections (pages 11, 33, 39, 40, 42, 57, 70, 90, 92, 103) which, if not by Pepys himself, were likely done at his direction. Pepys was forced to resign from the Admiralty following the Revolution in 1688; his Memoires highlight "a side of Pepys's life which is apt to be ignored" (Pforzheimer). ESTC R13464; Pforzheimer 793; Wing P1449.
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Property from a Private Collection, Chicago, Illinois
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