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
1920 - 1921
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3245876
Summary
Bibliographic description
9 v., plates (some folded) : ill., facsims., plan, ports. ; 8vo. Imperfect: vols. 2 and 9 only. Uniformly bound and shelved with v. 1, 3-8 (1923-1924), "Pepysiana" (1923), and three vols. of Pepys' correspondence (1926-1929). 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 endpaper 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. II[-IX. Index].'; 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 Richard Griffin Neville, 3rd Baron Braybrooke (1783-1858), editor Henry Benjamin Wheatley (1838 - 1917), editor