Samuel Pepys : the man in the making / Arthur Bryant.
Sir Arthur Wynne Morgan Bryant (1899–1985)
Category
Books
Date
Oct 1948
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3238219
Summary
Bibliographic description
New edition. xii, [2], 436 p., [4] leaves of plates : ill., maps, ports., geneal. table ; 22 cm. Shelved and uniform with Bryant's 'Samuel Pepys : the years of peril' (London, 1948). Maps originally printed on endpapers are bound in as second set of endpapers. Ephemera: loosely inserted instructions to binder. Provenance: Twentieth-century armorial bookplate (small variant), signed Badeley 1930: ‘Urban Huttleston Rogers Lord Fairhaven’ [i.e.: Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]. Manuscript inscription at head of title page: "For / Huttleston from Arthur / Christmas 1948" [i.e. to Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966) from the author, Sir Arthur Bryant (1899-1985)]. Title page signed by the author: "Arthur Bryant". Binding: Twentieth-century full blue morocco; triple gilt fillet to form an outer border; gilt armorial centrepiece stamp of Lord Fairhaven on upper board [i.e.: Urban Huttleston Rogers Broughton, 1st Lord Fairhaven (1896-1966)]; gilt-panelled spine with gilt-lettered spine title; sewn onto five raised bands; double gilt fillet on board edges; gilt fillets on turn-ins; gilt textblock edges; marbled endpapers. Binder's gilt stamp on front pastedown: Birdsall Northampton.
Makers and roles
Sir Arthur Wynne Morgan Bryant (1899–1985), author