An early Victorian Essex businessman’s notebook, inscribed i...

Hammer

£45

An early Victorian Essex businessman’s notebook, inscribed in ink and pencil MS. with drafts or copies of letters, some business accounts, expenditure, etc., as well as names and residences of the local gentry and clergy, various dates in the 1840s, contemporary vellum over boards (soiled), the pastedowns an 1845 almanac, marbled edges, 16mo, (1); Miniature Baxter Cabinet Prints, a collection of 20, c. 1849, mostly of an early Queen Victoria, her family, and royal residences, pasted into a slightly later 19th century leather album, square 16mo, (1); a post-Regency lady’s pocket commonplace and friendship book, inscribed with ink MS verse and prose, illustrated with prints, etc., contemporary binding (disbound, loosening), 16mo, (1); Renshaw’s Friendship’s Tribute for 1855, chromolithographed frontispiece and title-page, further engravings, the contents uninscribed, original maroon wrap, (1); Edwardian- George V accounts manuscript book, (1), [5]