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
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3066345
Summary
Bibliographic description
4 v., plates : ill., geneal. table, ports. ; 8vo. Occasional pencil text marking in v. 1-3. Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (small variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Binding: Nineteenth-century half green morocco, green cloth over boards; sewn onto five raised bands; gilt tooled spines, lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'Diary of John Evelyn' and 'Vol. I[-IV].'; gilt top edges; marbled endpapers. Binder's ink stamp on front free endpaper verso in each vol.: 'Bound by Birdsall, Northampton & London'.
Makers and roles
John Evelyn (1620-1706), author King Charles I (1600-1649), author William Bray (1736-1832), editor Sir Richard Browne (1605-1683), author Edward Hyde, 1st Earl of Clarendon (1609-1674), author Sir Edward Nicholas (1593-1669), author Henry Benjamin Wheatley (1838 - 1917), editor