The diary of Samuel Pepys M.A. F.R.S. / edited by Henry B. Wheatley … ; supplementary volume Pepysiana or Additional notes on the particulars of Pepys' life and on some passages in the diary ; with appendixes.
Henry Benjamin Wheatley (1838 - 1917)
Category
Books
Date
1923
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Anglesey Abbey, Cambridgeshire
NT 3245877
Summary
Bibliographic description
viii, [4], 330 p., [11] leaves of plates (4 folded) : ill., facsims., geneal. tables, map, ports. ; 8vo. Uniformly bound and shelved with "The diary of Samuel Pepys M.A. F.R.S." (set made up from 1920-1921 and 1923-1924 printings) and three vols. of Pepys' correspondence (1926-1929). Ephemera: portraits of Pepys, his wife (from her monument) and picture of Pepys' games board and chessmen pasted onto front and rear endpapers. 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 board. 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 board; sewn onto three recessed cords; five false bands; spine gilt, lettered direct (gilt tooled): 'The diary of Samuel Pepys Pepysiana.'; gilt rolled turn-ins; gilt top edge; red ribbon marker.
Makers and roles
Henry Benjamin Wheatley (1838 - 1917), author