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Hardcover. Condizione: Very Good. No Jacket. Limited Edition. NOTE: Oversize, will require additional shipping charges, please inquire prior to ordering. 8vo. Vol. I, xl, 427, vol. II, 484, vol. III, 481, vol. IV, 478 pages, including index. Some pages uncut; stated "Edition De Luxe" limited to 1000 sets to subscribers only, this being set #532; no date, but previous owner's information includes date of 1910; uniform three quarter dark brown leather over red marbled paper covered boards; gilt spine titles and decorations; matching red marbled endpapers; black & white frontispiece portraits with tissue guards, black & white plates with guards throughout. Rubbing to corners and extremities of boards, sunning to spines, other blemishes scattered over boards, chipping to heads of spines, with large chip from head of vol. III, ghosting to upper front of vol. IV; age-toning to edges, continuing to interior; previous owner's information to each title page. Very good minus copies. Lovely example of this complete set of the inimitable English diarist offering a detailed account of critical historic events-Great plague & Great Fire but also an insight into daily life in 17th century London.…