The Illustrated Pepys: Extracts from the Diary (First Edition thus)

University of California Press, Berkeley and Los Angeles, 1978. First edition. First printing. Full green paper-covered boards; spine lettered in gilt. Fine in a fine dust jacket. A tight, clean copy with publisher's original price ($15.95) intact on front jacket flap. Map endpapers of London in the 1660s. 4to. 240 pp., with chronology and index/glossary. Profusely illustrated throughout with contemporary material, including fourteen color illustrations and several double-page spreads, some drawn from Pepys's own collection of engravings at Cambridge. Comes with archival-quality mylar dust jacket protector. Selected and edited by Robert Latham, this illustrated edition presents Pepys's account of Restoration politics, the Dutch War, the Plague, the Great Fire of London, and his vividly observed private life.