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   Jimurock | Mar 27, 2009 06:50am | #1

   This probably isn't much help since the photos are from a distance: http://www.magd.cam.ac.uk/pepys/

   It's interesting that the second "press" was delivered on the 24th of August -- not exactly a long time for work of that quality.  Presumably Simpson had a day job also. Pepys was notorious for using his position to get stuff on the cheap.  There's an interesting entry on August 14:  "Up, and comes Mr Foly and his man with a box of great variety of Carpenters and Joyners tooles which I had bespoke, to me, which please me mightily, but I will have more."  Sounds like a few guys on Knots.  I've no idea what use he made of them.  The full edition of the diary runs to about 20 volumes, and I settled for the shorter 3 vol. set.  Fascinating stuff.

   Jim

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   Disputantum | Mar 28, 2009 04:42am | #3

   "Fascinating stuff" Yes, it is. The sentence is "Then I abroad to the Old Swan, and there called and kissed Betty Michell and would have got her to go to Westminster, but I find her a little colder to me then she used to be methought." I wonder if he found time to use those tools with all his skirtchasing. Another interesting bit is when he's talking to a stonemason who says it takes him all day to cut four inches of marble.

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   Jimurock | Mar 27, 2009 08:11pm | #2

   There's a contemporary copy in the Victoria and Albert museum.  Not much information online, but you can get a better illustration.  http://collections.vam.ac.uk/indexplus/result.html

   Jim

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   Disputantum | Mar 28, 2009 04:44am | #4

   Thanks. That's sort of thing I'm looking for. I haven't found the Symonds article yet. I'll email the Pepys library if I don't have any success. I was hoping there was an article in a back issue of FWW, but apparently not.