Noreen, the best value for money in the UK is probably a Book Club Associates (Guild Publishing) edition, "The Shorter Pepys" edited by Robert Latham and published about ten years ago. It's often in second-hand bookshops for about GPB5.00, or search secondhand books on the net, where dealers are now getting themselves well organised. Latham was joint editor of an edition of the full diary, published by Bell & Hyman in stages throughout the 1970s, in about a dozen volumes. Even the "Shorter" Pepys runs to 1,000 pages or more. The tragedy is that he ever stopped writing it. It would have been interesting to have his eye-witness account of the so-called Glorious Revolution, for instance.