THE DEFINITIVE TEXT OF PEPYS’S DIARY – ‘A TRIUMPH OF MODERN SCHOLARSHIP’ (C.P. SNOW) ¶¶ Volume I: 1660 [–Volume II: 1661; –Volume III:1662; –Volume IV:1663; –Volume V:1664; –Volume VI:1665; –Volume VII:1666; –Volume VIII:1667; Volume IX:1668-1669; Volume X: Companion. Compiled and Edited by Robert Latham; Volume XI: Index. Compiled by Robert Latham ¶¶ London: The University Press, Cambridge [I-II, IV, VII-IX], Antony Rowe Ltd [III, V], and Fletcher & Son Ltd [VI, X-XI] for Bell & Hyman Limited [I, III, V-VII, IX-XI] and Unwin Hyman Limited [II, IV, VIII] ¶¶ 11 volumes, octavo (215 x 136mm), pp. I: clii, [2 (fly-title, ‘Preliminary Note’)], 350, [8 (blanks)]; II: xi, [1 (blank)], [2 (fly-title, verso blank)], 257, [3 (blanks)]; III: xi, [1 (blank)], [2 (fly-title, verso blank)], 314, [315-330 (‘Select Glossary’)]; IV: xi, [1 (blank)], [2 (fly-title, verso blank)], 466; V: xi, [1 (blank)], [2 (fly-title, verso blank)], 387, [7 (blanks)]; VI: xi, [1 (blank)], [2 (fly-title, verso blank)], 367, [3 (blanks)]; VII: ix, [1 (blank)], [2 (fly-title, verso blank)], 452; VIII: xi, [1 (blank)], [2 (fly-title, verso blank)], 627, [3 (blanks)]; IX: xi, [1 (blank)], [2 (fly-title, verso blank)], 590, [4 (blanks)]; X: xiii, [3 (acknowledgements, fly-title, verso blank)], 626, [9 (genealogical tables and maps)], [5 (blanks)]; XI: [2 (blanks)], xiv, [4 (acknowledgements, verso blank, epigraph, verso blank)], 344, [4 (blanks)]. Half-tone frontispieces after John Hayls, John Riley, Sir Peter Lely, Sir Godfrey Kneller, et al. in vols I-X. 47 half-tone plates, one double-page, one folding, and 3 with illustrations recto-and-verso, and one half-tone folding panorama tipped onto the rear pastedown of vol. II. 5 full-page and 20 double-page maps in the text after T.F. Reddaway et al., and one double-page plan in the text. (Occasional light marginal marks, some apparently production flaws.) Original green boards gilt, upper boards with gilt facsimile of Pepys’s ‘SP’ device with crossed anchors used on his bookplate, spines titled in gilt on red panel and lettered in gilt, top edges green, dustwrappers illustrated with portrait after Hayls, those on vols I-II, VI-VII, and IX-XI price-clipped, those on vols I-II, IV, VI-VII, and IX-X with later Harper Collins adhesive price label. (Partial fading on top edges of some vols, occasional light bumping, some slight creasing at edges of dustwrappers, vol. VI with one plate bound upside-down and production flaw causing adhesion of small piece of paper to board, vol. VIII front free endpaper and half-title creased, dustwrapper with short tear.) A very good set.