Samuel Pepys : the years of peril / Samuel Pepys.
Sir Arthur Wynne Morgan Bryant (1899–1985)
Category
Books
Date
1948
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3238221
Summary
Bibliographic description
New edition. xiv, 466 p., [6] leaves of plates : ill., ports., maps ; 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