Item Reference: 002164
Category: Stationery
Format: Artefact
Description: Rectangular short bills ledger. Manufactured by Eden Fisher & Company, which the inner leaf label lists identifies as offering services as ‘bankers’ stationers’, ‘account book manufacturers’, and ‘engravers and printers’. Lists addresses as ‘6, 7, & 8 Clements Lane, Lombard Street’ and ’96-97 Fenchurch Street’. Brown leather binding and corner covers, red textured cover. The ledger features a fore-edge painting in spiral design, that matches the pastedown and endpapers. The pages of the ledger have identical pre-printed, or drawn, tables with pink lines, though no labels. It has not been used. 8.5″x12″x2″ (height, width, depth).
Date: c. 1900
Further Information: Lombard Street is well known as a hub for banking and associated business, going back to the medieval period.
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