The diary of Samuel Pepys .... transcribed from the shorthand manuscript in the Pepysian Library Magdalene College Cambridge by the Rev. Mynors Bright ... with Lord Braybrooke's notes ;
Samuel Pepys (1633-1703)
Category
Books
Date
1893 - 1899
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Polesden Lacey, Surrey
NT 3212364
Summary
Bibliographic description
10 v.. ill.., front. ports.., maps, geneal. table (fold.). 22 cm. Bookseller's pencil price of 10/6 in v.4. Provenance: inscribed on half-title of v.1 "Ronald Fulke Greville 1893" [(1864-1908)]. Nineteenth-century armorial bookplate of the Greville family, two swans ducally gorged, with motto: Vix ea nostra voco. With many unopened leaves. Binding: publisher's blue cloth, gold lettered and decorated spine. Some fading (water damage?) to boards..
Makers and roles
Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) Mynors Bright (1818-1883) Henry Benjamin Wheatley (1838 - 1917)