Samuel Pepys' Diary
Title
Samuel Pepys' Diary
SERIES TITLE: Cameo Classics
Creator
Samuel Pepys, book's author
Publisher
New York: Grosset & Dunlap
Date
1932
Contributor
Madison Theodore researched and wrote the event description in 2018.
Description
For a description of the book, please click on the image of the event label/description or scroll to the bottom of the page for the section entitled "Text" for a transcription of the attached document.
Subject
History / Biography
Identifier
SPECIAL DA 447 .P4 A4 1932a
Language
English, book's contents
English, event description
English, event description
Relation
To see this book on November 15, 2018 in the “Event Photographs” Collection, please go here [Photograph of Books] 05454 and here [Photograph of Books] IMG_0583.
Text
Transcription of event description:
SAMUEL PEPYS’ DIARY | SAMUEL PEPYS | NEW YORK: GROSSET & DUNLAP | 1932 | CAMEO CLASSICS
This book is saved from being boring by two features - the dark purple color of the cloth cover with the title stamped in gilt and the cameo in the center, which has been partially rubbed or scraped away at the edges. On the spine, once purple cloth with lettering and leaf designs in gold has faded to brown and black due to sun damage. The cameo may be paper maché, and is an onlay. It features Johann Gutenberg, who invented the printing press in 1440.
This book is a reprint of the personal diary of Samuel Pepys that he kept between 1660 and 1669. During this time, he was a young naval officer, and his diary includes many first-hand and eye-witness accounts of historic events from the 1660s (the English Restoration period). These events include the Great Fire of London, the Great Plague of London, and the Second Dutch War. Since this book contains eyewitness accounts of London in the 1660s, it is an important primary source of the English Restoration period.
The diary contains illustrations by Randolph Adler and is the only known book he illustrated. The format Adler used is not specified in the book but has the appearance of a wood block print. Although some of the illustrations are a full page, but they are not plates because there is text printed on the other side. The rest of the illustrations are vignettes at the end of chapters to keep the reader engaged, because they highlight something the artist thought was important.
Samuel Pepys’ Diary is one of 3,000 volumes donated by Mrs. Marifrances Engelhardt after Hurricane Matthew (2016) flooded her home. About 240 books are in Special Collections. During WWII she served in Spain in the diplomatic corps and married a well-known foreign correspondent, through whom she met Ernest Hemingway and Orson Wells. Sometime after her second marriage she settled in St. Augustine. When shown a book from her collection, despite her advanced years, she remembered who in her family owned it or gave it to her, and whether or not she enjoyed reading it. Mrs. Engelhardt died on April 18, 2017.
SAMUEL PEPYS’ DIARY | SAMUEL PEPYS | NEW YORK: GROSSET & DUNLAP | 1932 | CAMEO CLASSICS
This book is saved from being boring by two features - the dark purple color of the cloth cover with the title stamped in gilt and the cameo in the center, which has been partially rubbed or scraped away at the edges. On the spine, once purple cloth with lettering and leaf designs in gold has faded to brown and black due to sun damage. The cameo may be paper maché, and is an onlay. It features Johann Gutenberg, who invented the printing press in 1440.
This book is a reprint of the personal diary of Samuel Pepys that he kept between 1660 and 1669. During this time, he was a young naval officer, and his diary includes many first-hand and eye-witness accounts of historic events from the 1660s (the English Restoration period). These events include the Great Fire of London, the Great Plague of London, and the Second Dutch War. Since this book contains eyewitness accounts of London in the 1660s, it is an important primary source of the English Restoration period.
The diary contains illustrations by Randolph Adler and is the only known book he illustrated. The format Adler used is not specified in the book but has the appearance of a wood block print. Although some of the illustrations are a full page, but they are not plates because there is text printed on the other side. The rest of the illustrations are vignettes at the end of chapters to keep the reader engaged, because they highlight something the artist thought was important.
Samuel Pepys’ Diary is one of 3,000 volumes donated by Mrs. Marifrances Engelhardt after Hurricane Matthew (2016) flooded her home. About 240 books are in Special Collections. During WWII she served in Spain in the diplomatic corps and married a well-known foreign correspondent, through whom she met Ernest Hemingway and Orson Wells. Sometime after her second marriage she settled in St. Augustine. When shown a book from her collection, despite her advanced years, she remembered who in her family owned it or gave it to her, and whether or not she enjoyed reading it. Mrs. Engelhardt died on April 18, 2017.
Original Format
Book / Unpublished Print Document
Collection
Citation
Samuel Pepys, book's author, “Samuel Pepys' Diary,” Beautiful Books in Flagler College's Special Collections, accessed May 5, 2024, https://beautifulbooks.omeka.net/items/show/51.