Creator
Bower, William
Title
Ledgers and account books
Publisher
[manuscript]
Date
1710–1781
Subject
7 volumes.
Description
This set of seven ledgers chronicles the business activities of the Bowyer-Nichols firm of London printers from 1710 to 1781. The collection provides information about more than 5,000 individual books or jobs printed by the Bowyers between 1710 and 1778 (one volume is opened to show the entry for the second edition of Defoe’s Robinson Crusoe, 1719). Handed down from father to son for generations in the Nichols family, the ledgers were purchased by the Grolier Club at the John Gough Nichols sale at Sotheby’s (London), November 18, 1929.
Source
Purchased in 1929.