Shelfmark
Go.3.14 - Go.3.15
Author
Title
Memoirs, illustrative of the life and writings of John Evelyn, Esq. F.R.S. ... comprising his diary, from the year 1641 to 1705-6, and a selection of his familiar letters. To which is subjoined, the private correspondence between King Charles I. and his Secretary of State, Sir Edward Nicholas, whilst His Majesty was in Scotland, 1641, and at other times during the civil war; also between Sir Edward Hyde, afterwards Earl of Clarendon, and Sir Richard Browne, Ambassador to the Court of France, in the time of King Charles I. and the usurpation. The whole now first published, from the original mss. in two volumes. Edited by William Bray, Esq. ... .
Edition
Second edition.
Publication, distribution, etc.
London: : Printed for Henry Colburn, Conduit Street; and sold by John and Arthur Arch, Cornhill., 1819..
Physical description
2 v. : ill., port., geneal. table ; 31 cm. (4to)
Note
Pagination: Vol. 1: xxviii, 671, [1] p., [8] leaves of plates (2 folded) -- Vol. 2: v, [3], 342, [2], 336 p., [4] leaves of plates.
Note
Signatures: Vol. 1: [a]⁴ b-c⁴ d² B-4Q⁴ -- Vol. 2: [A]⁴ B-2U⁴ "2X-Z"⁴ 3B-4U⁴ (4U1 missigned "3U").
Note
With a device on each title-page.
Note
"List of plates" on p. viii of v. 1.
Note
Etched frontispiece portrait of John Evelyn in vol. 1: "Engraved by T. Bragge from an original Picture by Sir G. Kneller".
Note
"Printed by Nichols, Son and Bentley, Red Lion Passage, Fleet Street, London." - verso of each title-leaf etc.
Note
Etched frontispiece portrait of Mary, wife of John Evelyn, in vol. 2: "Engraved by H. Meyer from an original Drawing by R. Nanteuil at Paris 1650.".
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of Major General Villiers Hatton (1852-1914) on front pastedown of both volumes.
Provenance
Armorial bookplate of Eton School Library, with ex dono of Major General Villiers Hatton, on first flyleaf recto of both volumes.
Binding
19th-century brown paper on millboards. Covers undecorated. Spine flat with damaged paper label ("Memoirs and correspondence of John Evelyn ..."). Textblock untrimmed. Endpapers of undecorated paper; one flyleaf at both ends of the textblock.
Copy-specific note
Bookseller's ms. notes in pencil on front pastedown, v.1.
Subject
Subject
Charles, 1682 - 1718 I, King of England,
Subject
Clarendon, Edward Hyde, 1609 - 1674 Earl of,
Subject
Subject
Subject
Great Britain History Civil War, 1642-1649.
Subject
Great Britain History Charles I, 1625-1649.
Subject
Great Britain History Stuarts, 1603-1714.
Added entry--name
Bray, William, 1736 - 1832 editor.
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Arch, Arthur, active 1792 - 1838 bookseller.
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Arch, John, active 1800 - 1822 bookseller.
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Colburn, Henry, ? - d. 1855 publisher.
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Clarendon, Edward Hyde, 1609 - 1674 Earl of,
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Charles, 1600 - 1649 I, King of England,
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Hatton, Villiers, 1852 - 1914 Major General, former owner.
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J. Nichols and Son printer.
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John and Arthur Arch bookseller.
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Eton College School Library former owner.
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England London.
Language code
eng
Identifier
B50961