Memoires for my Grand-son. Transcribed and Furnished with a Preface and Notes by Geoffrey Keynes.

(Nonesuch Press.) EVELYN (John)

Memoires for my Grand-son. Transcribed and Furnished with a Preface and Notes by Geoffrey Keynes.

Description: 484/1,250 COPIES, printed on Auvergne handmade paper using the Oxford University Press Fell types, typographical border to title-page, pp. xii, [ii], 104, [ii], 16mo, original limp white parchment with yapp fore-edges, backstrip gilt lettered, sides decorated with blind rules and the author's initials impressed at centre of both covers, edges a little toned, a few faint spots to front endpapers, bookplates of both Philip and Frances Hofer to front pastedown, with their subsequent gift inscription beneath, very good

Publication Details: The Nonesuch Press, 1926

Notes: The bookplates indicate an excellent provenance for this copy - the Hofers were eminent collectors, he being the first curator of the Department of Printing and Graphic Arts at Harvard's Houghton Library.

Bibliography: (Dreyfus 37)