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[London cartography and archery.] Engraved map of 'Finsbury-Fields. North', dedicated 'To his affect friends MR Baker & MR Sharpe and all other lovers of Archerie frequenting Finsbury fields | Will Hole'.

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William Hole (d.1624), engraver [Finsbury Fields, London; seventeenth-century archery; James Peller Malcolm]
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On paper watermarked 'J HALL | 1809'.
£45.00

On one side of piece of 23 x 18 cm paper. Image size: 21 x 12.5 cm. On aged and worn paper, with damage to margins, but image unaffected. Georgian facsimile (from Malcolm's 'Londinium Redivivum'?) of an attractive seventeenth-century map, notable for showing the shooting-butts.

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[Manuscript] Account book of Charles Garnett of Bonehills, Tamworth,

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[Charles Garnett]
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1839 to 1848
£280.00

Manuscript account book containing a wealth of detail, helping to build up a picture of the household of an affluent member of the Victorian middle-class (see 'Garnett of Wyreside' in Burke's Landed Gentry). The son of an East India Company civil servant, Charles Garnett (1811-1899), of Bonehills, Tamworth, and latterly of the manor house, Ashby-de-la-Zouch, was a member of the Middle Temple, and Justice of the Peace for the counties of Stafford and Warwick.

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