Diary of John Evelyn, . Esq., F.R.S. to which are added a selection from his familiar letters ... edited from the original mss. by William Bray, F.S.A. A new edition in four volumes with a life of the author by Henry B. Wheatley, F.S.A. With numerous portraits.
John Evelyn (1620-1706)
Category
Books
Date
1879
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Tyntesfield, North Somerset
NT 3066343
Summary
Bibliographic description
4v.,plates . ill..,ports.. . 8vo.. Pencil ms on title page verso: "10v d/m/-" [Possibly referring to these 4 volumes and 6 uniformly bound at NT132117]. Provenance: Armorial bookplate: "Antony Gibbs Tenax Propositi" [i.e. Antony Gibbs (1841-1907); family motto]. Binding: Nineteenth-century tree calf; gold-tooled spine, borders, board edges and board inners; marbled endpapers; gilt edges.
Makers and roles
John Evelyn (1620-1706) King Charles I (1600-1649) William Bray (1736-1832) Sir Richard Browne (1605-1683) Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon (1609-1674) Sir Edward Nicholas (1593-1669) Henry Benjamin Wheatley (1838 - 1917)