Manuscript Account Book, with several documents loosely inserted.

Quarto: three hundred and thirty paginated pages, with index of twenty-four pages. In worn black leather half-binding, with 'LEDGER' on spine. Large label of Field & Tuer, Manufacturing Stationers, on front pastedown. Aged, but in good condition and complete. Detailed accounts of a well-to-do Victorian family, with significant interests in London and elsewhere, with seeming connections to the Worshipful Company of Cooks. Headings include: 'London & Westminster Bank 1 St James's Sqre'; 'Housekeeping'; 'Sundries Column of the Cash Book dissected'; 'Bride Lane'; 'Acceptances'; rents to Mr William Howard of the Grove, Teddington, Middlesex, for 5 Chandos St; 'Charities; Subs - Donats - &c.'; rents to Mrs. Bennet for nos 20 & 22 Richmond Street; 'Small Loans'; 'Expenditure 4 Osnaburgh Terrace'; '8 Leicester Square weekly balances'; 'No. 172 Oxford Street Weekly balances'; 'Expenditure 10 Kent Terrace'; 'Cambridge Expenses'; 'The Worshipful Company of Cooks London'; '172 Oxford St. Purchase of Portland Lease'; 'Ludwig Benjamin Esq. in A/C with F. & C. F. H'; 'H. St Aubyn Goodrich Esq in A/C with F, J E & L W H 29 Montpelier Sq S.W.'; 'Donations &c' and 'Wages'. Among the items loosely inserted are a number of letters and drafts relating to the charitable Farm School at Bisley in Surrey.