BIBLIOTHECA PEPYSIANA, A DESCRIPTIVE CATALOGUE OF THE LIBRARY OF SAMUEL PEPYS
- SIGNED quarter cloth, paper-covered boards, paper spine label, dust jackets
- London: Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd, 1940
London: Sidgwick & Jackson, Ltd, 1940. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards, paper spine label, dust jackets. Pepys, Samuel. large 8vo. quarter cloth, paper-covered boards, paper spine label, dust jackets. (iv), xi, (i), 102; (iv), xix, (i), 82, (2); (ii), x, 128; xvii, (i), 124, (2) pages. 4 volumes. First edition of this rare work. Volume III lacking the dust jacket. Chipping to the spine ends of Volume I, II, and IV. Spines of jackets lightly age-darkened. Minor discoloration to the endsheets of all four volumes. Overall, a lovely set.
This bibliography gives a complete accounting of the library of seventeenth-century naval administrator Samuel Pepys. Volume I, entitled "Sea" Manuscripts, was written by J. R. Tanner and describes 114 works associated with naval history. Volume II gives a general introduction to the library by F. Sidgwick along with a catalogue of Early Printed Books to 1558 by E. Gordon Duff. Volume III, Mediaeval Manuscripts by Dr. M. R. James, lists and fully describes 51 mediaevel manuscripts. Volume IV, Shorthand Books with Biographical and Bibliographical Notes, catalogues over twenty authors and their works on shorthand, with biographical and bibliographical notes.
This bibliography gives a complete accounting of the library of seventeenth-century naval administrator Samuel Pepys. Volume I, entitled "Sea" Manuscripts, was written by J. R. Tanner and describes 114 works associated with naval history. Volume II gives a general introduction to the library by F. Sidgwick along with a catalogue of Early Printed Books to 1558 by E. Gordon Duff. Volume III, Mediaeval Manuscripts by Dr. M. R. James, lists and fully describes 51 mediaevel manuscripts. Volume IV, Shorthand Books with Biographical and Bibliographical Notes, catalogues over twenty authors and their works on shorthand, with biographical and bibliographical notes.