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Title: Account book.
Alternative Title: Fly 1668. London: Printed by S.G. for the Company of Stationers, [1668]
Creator: Besant, Walter, 1836-1901, former owner.
Contributor: Sheringham, Hugh, 1876-1930, former owner.
Date Created and/or Issued: 1668
Contributing Institution: UCLA, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Collection: Early Modern Annotated Books from UCLA’s Clark Library
Rights Information: Public Domain
Material in the public domain. No restrictions on use.
Description: Scope/Content: Manuscript annotations in printed book.
Scope/Content: Manuscript accounts kept by an unknown contemporary owner in his 1668 Fly almanac. Accounts document a large range of household expenditures (and clothing inventories), as well as itemize spending while traveling. The writer likely lived in southwestern England, as there are a large number of cities and towns in Somerset, Wiltshire and Bristol mentioned; he also lists stopping in Marlborough on the Old Bath road to London.
Condition: Bound in later half calf with brown boards; hinges defective.
Type: text
Form/Genre: Account books--England--17th century.
Annotations (Provenance)--England--17th century.
Bookplates (Provenance)--England--19th century.
Bookplates (Provenance)--England--20th century.
Extent: [104] pages, bound; 14 cm
Identifier: ark:/21198/n1nk5c
AY751 .F58 1668 *
Language: English
Place: England.
Provenance: Bookplates of Hugh Tempest Sheringham and Walter Besant on front endpapers.
Location: CLUW

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