So much of the diary of Lady Willoughby as relates to her domestic history & to the eventful period of the reign of Charles the First.
Contributors: Whittingham, Charles, 1795-1876.; Evans, Hugh C.; Chiswick Press; Remnant & Edmonds
Publisher: Imprinted for Longman, Brown, Green, & Longmans ...
Published: 1845
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 220
Other titles: So much of the diary of Lady Willoughby as relates to her domestic history and to the eventful period of the reign of Charles the First.; Some passages from the diary of Lady Willoughby.; From the diary of Lady Willoughby.; Diary of Lady Willoughby :
Notes: Includes wood-engraved head-pieces and initials.

Text printed within a thin black rule border, in a wide column with the pagination and dates printed within a narrow side column.

The first part of a fictitious diary by H. M. Rathbone.  Cf. British Library Public Catalogue. The second part was issued in 1848.  See McLean O 513 and McLean D 0932.

First book to be printed entirely in Caslon type during the nineteenth-century revival of earlier faces.  Cf. PMM Catalogue.

"The style of Printing and general appearance of this Volume have been adopted by the Publishers merely to be in accordance with the design of the Author, who in this Work personates a lady of the seventeenth Century--To the Reader.

MASS copy 1: Bound in ribbed decorative red, yellow, blue  and green diamond patterned paper printed in gold with decorative floral pattern.  With printed paper title label on spine.  With marbled endpapers.  With binder's ticket: "Bound by  Remnant & Edmonds  London".  With ownership inscription: "HJ Ricketts  Brislington".  With bookseller's label: "Hugh C. Evans,  29 Clare Street,  Bristol.".  With ownership label: "Ruari McLean".

MASS copy 2: Bound in the same decorative paper as on copy 1.  With printed paper title label on spine.  With marbled endpapers. With binder's ticket: "Bound by  Remnant & Edmonds  London".  Lacking upper free endpaper.