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Title: Wigmaker's account book.
Alternative Title: The British telescope. London: Printed by A. Parker, for the Company of Stationers, 1737.
Creator: Weaver, Edmund, -1748
Contributor: W. R., former owner.
Date Created and/or Issued: 1742-1745.
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 written by a roughly contemporary owner in a 1737 copy of The British Telescope almanac. Accounts written on blank pages are clearly that of a wigmaker, as they mention individuals' names and head sizes, as well as keep accounts for wigs made between 1742-1745. There are also other accounts of debts owed written in the same hand, as well as some astrological measurements and other mathematical equations, likely written in another 18th century hand.
Condition: Bound in contemporary calf wallet binding with "W.R." stamped on cover.
Type: text
Form/Genre: Annotations (Provenance)--England--18th century.
Account books--England--18th century.
Extent: [70] pages, bound; 16 cm
Identifier: ark:/21198/n14s4d
BF1681 .A44 1737 *
Language: English
Subject: Astronomy--Early works to 1800.
Wigmakers--Accounting.
Place: England.
Location: CLUW

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