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Title
The ladies new memorandum book: serving as a compleat register of all their transactions for the year 1758...
Contributor
Boitard, Louis-Philippe, fl. 1733-1770, engraver.
Hitch, Charles, d. 1764, bookseller.
Hawes, Lacy, bookseller.
Rivington, John, 1720-1792, bookseller.
Date Created and/or Issued
[1758]
Contributing Institution
UCLA, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library
Collection
Early Modern English Manuscripts from UCLA’s Clark Library
Rights Information
Public Domain
Material in the public domain. No restrictions on use.
Description
Scope/Content: Printed memorandum book designed to be written in, with manuscript notes from multiple owners. "Price bound one shilling." Frontispiece engraving by Louis-Philippe Boitard.
Scope/Content: Memorandum book and calendar for 1758 with manuscript notes by at least three different hands. Several notes in the beginning of the volume dated 1760 record some accounts and weekly menus, while the majority of notes seem to be the work of "Wm. Wilson, " an attorney from Warwick, who used the volume to keep track of legal business and accounts, as well as appointments and travels.
Condition: Leather wallet binding.
Type
text
Form/Genre
Appointment books
Extent
8, [136] p. :engraved frontis. ;14 cm.
Identifier
ark:/21198/n1w90w
MS.2008.002
Language
English
eng
Subject
Conduct of life--Handbooks, manuals, etc.--18th century.
Cooking--England--Handbooks, manuals, etc.--18th century.
Place
England--London
Provenance
Verso of front cover: "Wm. Wilson, Atty in Warwick his Almanack."
Location
CLUW

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