LEES-MILNE JamesMareMagnum
EVELYN JohnMareMagnum
Diary and Correspondence of John Evelyn, to which is subjoined the Private Correspondence between King Charles I and Sir Edward Nicholas and between Sir Edward Hyde and Sir Richard Browne. Edited, from the Original MSS at Wotton.
8vo., First Edition, endpapers lightly spotted; original olive buckram, back gilt with red leather label ruled and lettered in gilt, brown top, black endpapers, uncut, covers mildly age-soiled else a very good, clean, firm copy. With the early twentieth century armorial bookplate of William Bradbrooke, and trade ticket of Blackwell's of Oxford, on front paste-down. The best single-volume collection, predating de Beer's definitive six-volume edition of 1955. Very scarce.
Antiquarian Bookshop Island Books · Thakeham, GB79,61 €