Account or Record Books (TWO)

Two volumes, 18 x 40cms, covers grubby but contents good. All customers are listed in an index (some have multiple references), and information is given throughout as follows: Date (day, month, year)(the day of the week is given e.g. "Die veneris"), at the head of the page, customer's names (occasionally "Anon." or servant girl or barmaid or elderly man) and a number (commencing 12069, suggesting how many books preceded the survivors), details of what is supplied, (sometimes instructions fo dosage, etc.), initialled or signed by the chemist, and the cost. Occasionally a street name is recorded (Doughty Street, Grays Inn Road, Guildford St, Drury Lane, etc.) suggesting a location or catchment area in Bloomsbury, Kings Cross or the theatre district (some names suchj as "Miss Neilson" could well be of actors or actresses. There are quite a number of Italian names also. The pharmacist (or one of them) idntifies himself in the second volume (6.1.96) as "Knowles (self)" (no charge recorded).