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Title: [Account book].
Alternative Title: The ladies diary: or, The woman's almanack, for the year of our Lord, 1710. London: Printed by J. Wilde, for the Company of Stationers, 1710.
Creator: Taylor, Alex, active 1710.
Date Created and/or Issued: [about 1710-1711]
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 in interleaved pages of printed book.
Scope/Content: Manuscript accounts inscribed on the blank leaves of an interleaved copy of The ladies diary (London: J. Wilde, 1710). Apparently kept by Alex. Taylor, whose name appears in a similar and contemporary hand on the front inner board, most transactions are outgoing payments to a variety of people. Some purchases recorded in more detail are for barley, hay, and the purchase of a horse; some transactions also record town names, which include Brailsford, Shirley, Hulland, and Bradley (all in Derbyshire). Other notations mention trips taken to Derby and London.
Condition: Bound in contemporary calf, with a wallet tuck; "1710" inscribed in ink on cover.
Type: text
Form/Genre: Account books--England--18th century.
Extent: [21], 11, [8] pages, bound; 16 cm
Identifier: ark:/21198/n1h59h
AY751 .L15 1710 *
Language: English
Place: England--Derbyshire.
Provenance: Alex Taylor inscribed on front inner board; "1710" inscribed in ink on cover.
Location: CLUW

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