Memoirs of Samuel Pepys, Esq. F.R.S. :. secretary to the Admiralty in the reigns of Charles II. and James II. Comprising his diary from 1659 to 1669, deciphered by the Rev. John Smith, from the original short-hand MS. in the Pepysian Library, and a selection from his private correspondence,. edited by Richard, Lord Braybrooke. In two volumes.
Samuel Pepys (1633-1703)
Category
Books
Date
1825
Materials
Place of origin
England
Collection
Kingston Lacy Estate, Dorset
NT 3259790
Summary
Bibliographic description
2v., plates :. ill.., maps, ports. ;. 4to (31 cm.). Binder/bookseller's ticket on front pastedown: Smith, 49 Long Acre. Binding: nineteenth-century tan calf; three gilt fillets to form a border with single gilt rosette tool to the corner and inner broad, blind roll; spine with four double raised bands, gilt tooled compartments; title and volume spine compartments gilt lettered direct "Pepys's memoires" and "I[-II]; gilt roll to foredge and inner edge of boards; marbled edges and endpapers. Tissue paper inserted (2011) due to plates offsetting. Split joints (v.2).
Makers and roles
Samuel Pepys (1633-1703) Richard Griffin Neville, 3rd Baron Braybrooke (1783-1858)