Gordon & Co Bill for Seeds, 1822 - Bill head
by Gordon, Forsyth, Thomson and Co
- Used
- near fine
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Near Fine
- Seller
-
Leeds, West Yorkshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
Wiltshire and London: Unpublished, 1822. No Binding. Near Fine. [4] 'Dutch turnip', 'Windsor Beans' and 'Negro dwarf kidney beans': a bill from a London nursery - 'Seedsman' - for supplying vegetable seeds to the lawyer John Thomas Batt to be planted at his country home, New Hall, near Salisbury in Wiltshire. Quarto sized bifolium with printed bill-head on the first recto, accomplished in manuscript with about 40 types of seed to be sent to 'J.T.Batt Esq, New Hall near Salisbury' at a total cost of '£6"0"9' with the company's docket title to the final blank and a note in Batt's hand. Batt was a successful London lawyer from the 1780s-1820s who was an executor of Sir Edward Gibbon and a political mover and shaker during the tumultuous years before William Pitt became Prime Minister. In addition to lodgings in Lincoln's Inn he had a country home near Salisbury. Near Fine Please contact Christian White Rare Books Ltd for more information or images of this item 1822
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- Bookseller
- Christian White Rare Books Ltd. (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 1006
- Title
- Gordon & Co Bill for Seeds, 1822 - Bill head
- Author
- Gordon, Forsyth, Thomson and Co
- Format/Binding
- No Binding
- Book Condition
- Used - Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Unpublished
- Place of Publication
- Wiltshire and London
- Date Published
- 1822
- Bookseller catalogs
- Manuscript;
- Product_type
- Ephemera
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About the Seller
Christian White Rare Books Ltd.
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Leeds, West Yorkshire
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- Quarto
- The term quarto is used to describe a page or book size. A printed sheet is made with four pages of text on each side, and the...
- New
- A new book is a book previously not circulated to a buyer. Although a new book is typically free of any faults or defects, "new"...
- Fine
- A book in fine condition exhibits no flaws. A fine condition book closely approaches As New condition, but may lack the...
- Recto
- The page on the right side of a book, with the term Verso used to describe the page on the left side.