The diary of Samuel Pepys M.A. F.R.S. : Clerk of the Acts and Secretary to the Admiralty / transcribed from the shorthand manuscript in the Pepysian Library Magdalene College Cambridge by the Rev. Mynors Bright, M.A. late Fellow and President of the College ; with Lord Braybrooke's notes ; edited with additions by Henry B. Wheatley ...
Samuel Pepys (1633-1703)
Category
Books
Date
1923 - 1924
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3101409
Summary
Bibliographic description
9 v., plates (some folded) : ill., facsims., plan, ports. ; 8vo. Imperfect: lacks v. 2 and v. 9. Uniformly bound and shelved with v. 2 (1921), v. 9 (1920), "Pepysiana" (1923), and three vols. of Pepys' correspondence (1926-1929). Ephemera: pasted into v.1: (1) two newspaper photographs of Pepys' house at Brampton (from 'The Weekly Times', 9th September 1926); (2) printed sketches of a couple in seventeenth-century costume and of a ship. Pasted into v. 3: (1) printed roofscape of London; (2) drawing from newspaper of the murder of the Duke of Buckingham; (3) photograph of memorial to Pepys' wife (from Country Life, 27th November 1926); (4) letter to the 'Sunday Times' on Pepys and music (5th December 1926). Provenance: Nineteenth?-century armorial bookplate (not in Franks): 'Ivor A.B. Ferguson' [i.e. Ivor Andrew Benyon Ferguson (1874-1938)]. Gilt armorial stamp of Ivor Ferguson on upper boards. Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (small variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Bookseller's ink-stamp on front free endpapers verso: 'Sloane Book Shop. Chelsea.'. Binding: Twentieth-century full red morocco; gilt armorial stamp of Ivor Ferguson as centrepiece on upper boards; sewn onto three recessed cords; five false bands; spines gilt, lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'The diary of Samuel Pepys Vol. I[-VIII].'; gilt rolled turn-ins; gilt top edges; red ribbon marker in each vol.
Makers and roles
Samuel Pepys (1633-1703), author Mynors Bright (1818-1883), transcriber Lord Richard Braybrooke, editor Henry Benjamin Wheatley (1838 - 1917), editor