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Single entry day book
Title
Single entry day book, 1794.
Physical Description
1 v. (32 p.) ; 32 x 21 cm.
Language
English
Notes
Title from label on front cover.
Binding: contemporary marbled wrappers; hand-lettered paper label in center of front cover.
In English.
Provenance
Purchased from Ken Spelman Rare Books on the Cecil J. Harribine Fund, 2014.
Access and use
This material is open for research.
Summary
Manuscript account book exemplar by an unidentified British copyist, in a single copperplate hand. The volume opens with a set of "Rules" for keeping a day book, and continues with a series of fictitious entries for "Mr. Butcher," "Mr. Baker," and "Lady Strawbery," among others, illustrating contemporary practice in retail accounting.
Format
Archives or Manuscripts
Added to Catalog
July 07, 2014
References
Single Entry Day Book, 1794. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Cite as
Single Entry Day Book, 1794. General Collection, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library, Yale University.
Subjects
Genre/Form
Day books (accounting records) - Great Britain - 18th century.
Textbooks - Great Britain - 18th century.
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