Trade, Spirits and Receipts in Early 19th Century London. Le...

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Trade, Spirits and Receipts in Early 19th Century London. Lett's Diary, or Bills Due Book for the Year 1829, the date excised and the title-page inscribed in manuscript Robert William Sherrard, 1833, the compiler, of 36 Hart Street, Bloomsbury, while not actively engaged in the wine trade - the Sherrards being listed as tailors in the directories - has inscribed the volume with accounts and receipts for cherry brandy, rum, raw gin, ginger wine, etc., as well as loosely-inserting a recipe for parsnip wine, along with further details of dying, accounts, addresses, and a guide to and examples of shorthand, approx. two thirds of the diary are thus inscribed, the remainder blank, original roan over printed paper boards, chipped and rubbed, 8vo.