When was the complete nine-volume edition of Samuel Pepys’s diary published?

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Diarist Samuel Pepys — Samuel Pepys Samuel Pepys, oil painting by John Hayls, 1666; in the National Portrait Gallery, London.

The complete nine-volume edition of The Diary of Samuel Pepys was published between 1970 and 1983.1

While the diary was first published in 1825, those early versions and subsequent editions contained significant omissions and bowdlerizations; the 1970–83 release stands as the first complete edition of the work.1