Diary and correspondence of Samuel Pepys, .... The diary deciphered by the Rev. J. Smith, A.M. from the original shorthand MS. in the Pepysian library. With a life and notes by Richard Lord Braybrooke. New edition. In four volumes. ...
Samuel Pepys (1633-1703)
Category
Books
Date
1884
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Polesden Lacey, Surrey
NT 3218710
Summary
Bibliographic description
4v.:. ill., facsims., ports.;. 8vo. Extra-illustrated throughout, and with many newspaper articles relating to Pepys pasted and laid in. Advertisement leaves in v.3 excised. Provenance: inscribed "William Percy Drummond"; nineteenth-century armorial bookplate, lettered William Percy Drummond, with the motto of the Drummond clan "Gang warily"; small bookplate of Bertha H. Johnston, within oval floral border [i.e. Bertha Harriette Johnston, née Saward, (1852-1934), mother of Dorothy Edith Johnston (1880-1962)]. Bookseller's ticket on upper pastedown: H.T. Cooke & son, booksellers & stationers, Warwick. Bookseller's ticket on lower pastedown: Simmons & Waters Book and print dealers 10 Spencer Street, Leamington Spa. Binding: publisher's green cloth.
Makers and roles
Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) Richard Griffin Neville, 3rd Baron Braybrooke (1783-1858)