Item Reference: 002165
Category: Stationery
Format: Artefact
Description: Large leather-bound ledger, with ‘General Ledger’ indented and coloured gold along the spine. Manufactured by Eden Fisher & Company Limited, which the inner leaf label identifies as offering services as ‘manufacturing stationers and printers’ and ‘account book makers’. Lists addresses as ‘6,7, & 8 Clements Lane, Lombard Street’ and ’95, 96, 97 Fenchurch Street’. The cover features an indented design in the leather and fore-edge painting in a spiral design, that matches the pastedown and front and back endpapers. 494 pages, 482 of which are the ledger. The pages of the ledger have identical pre-printed, or drawn, tables with pink lines, though no labels. It has not been used. 15″x11″x2.5″ (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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