£160
Nottingham. Pharmaceutical manuscript - Note Book of Robert Elliott (1881-1932), the entries listing the ingredients and quantities of various preparations, including chlorodyne, face powder, lime juice cordial, varnish, baking powder, liver pills, cough herbs, pile ointment, acne and lemon syrup, written on one side of a page only in mostly red ink, morocco boards ruled in gilt, marbled end papers and edges, 13 x 8cm and two other manuscript notebooks of recipes by Boots employees - Tablet Department Sugar Coating Section Process of Tablets and Pills by Mary Briggs 1933 and Tablet Managers Notebook on Granulating Solutions and Tablet Excipients (3)
G R Elliott began his career as Jesse Boot's first errand boy when aged 11 at the original, small shop in Goosegate, Nottingham. He retired at 65
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