Everybody’s Pepys. The Diary of Samuel Pepys 1660–1669. - Abridged from the Complete Copyright Text and Edited by O. F. Morshead. With 60 Illustrations by Ernest H. Shepard.
Shepard illustrations, Riviere binding, 1935
Seventh impression (first published 1926). [xxiv], 570 pp. Pictorial title and sixty illustrations by Shepard. The front cover has a large figure of Pepys, yawning and candle in hand on his way to bed, onlaid in coloured morocco after Shepard’s illustration “And so to bed.” Both covers have an ornate gilt frame with rounded corners, dotted rules, rosettes and fleuron cornerpieces. The spine has raised bands, compartments richly gilt, and is lettered in gilt. Gilt-tooled turn-ins, suede endleaves, all edges gilt.
Shepard illustrated Pepys in the same years as his celebrated drawings for Winnie-the-Pooh. Riviere’s pictorial onlay bindings for this edition, with Pepys yawning his way to bed, are among the firm’s most charming twentieth-century trade bindings.
Hardcover. Seventh Impression. Octavo. Bound by Riviere & Son (stamp-signed on the front turn-in) in full red morocco. London: G. Bell and Sons, 1935. #11509.
Bright, near fine copy.
Shepard illustrated Pepys in the same years as his celebrated drawings for Winnie-the-Pooh. Riviere’s pictorial onlay bindings for this edition, with Pepys yawning his way to bed, are among the firm’s most charming twentieth-century trade bindings.
Hardcover. Seventh Impression. Octavo. Bound by Riviere & Son (stamp-signed on the front turn-in) in full red morocco. London: G. Bell and Sons, 1935. #11509.
Bright, near fine copy.