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Together 10 vols. 8vo. (21 x 14 cm) Bound by Truslove & Hanson (Clifford Street, Bond Street) in contemporary half sky blue morocco over blue cloth boards, spines with raised bands, gilt-framed compartments, and red morocco label, marbled endpapers, all edges gilt. Title-pages printed in red and black. Frontispiece to each volume and further illustrations throughout Some light shelfwear and occasional light foxing, generally a very good set. Includes the Index & Supplemental Pepysiana volumes. Truslove & Hanson was a minor independent publishing firm that ran a number of fashionable bookshops in the West End of London. They also printed personalized stationery and bookplates, offered a bookbinding service, and acted as London agents for the State Library of New South Wales.

The Diary of Samuel Pepys is one of the most important primary sources of the English Restoration, recording personal experiences and views of significant events such as the Great Plague of London and the Great Fire of London.