Letters to My Father. 1660-1663.

49/50 COPIES signed by the illustrator, tipped-in frontispiece and 10 lino-cuts by Melinsky, folding genealogical table, pp. 63, royal 8vo, original full crimson morocco, lettered in gilt to upper board and backstrip, the latter just a touch faded, these special copies with a separate folder containing 4 sheets in facsimile of two of the original letters, black cloth slipcase, near fine. The letters, first published here, begin in 1660, whilst Abney, later a Liberal politician, was still a Fellow at Christ's College, Cambridge; they offer a compelling personal portrait of life in England after the Civil War.