LETTS & SON - publishers:

LETTS'S DIARY, OR BILLS DUE BOOK FOR THE YEAR 1830, BEING THE ELEVENTH YEAR OF THE REIGN OF HIS PRESENT MAJESTY, GEORGE IV.

London: Letts & Son 1829. A handsome copy of one of the very earliest editions of the still-going-strong Letts Diaries, said to have been invented by Thomas Letts (1803-1873) - the son in "Letts & Son" of the Royal Exchange, but here still the junior partner of his father, John Letts. The prefatory text includes information on postage and stamps, addresses of consuls, the law and university terms, tables of income calculations, banking days, public funds, watermen's fares, aldermen and city officers, a 14pp list of bankers, lists of ministers and members of parliament, etc. The diary proper gives a six-day week to each double-page. The title-page already offers the diary in ten different formats (or twenty if one counts the "with Sunday" option. Pott 8vo. 32,[112 (ex 120)]pp. The four missing leaves at the rear are the simply headed blank notes pages for June to December 1830, which have been excised. Bound in the original and most unusual roan-backed vellum, the upper cover printed with an engraved title and a vignette of the Royal Exchange. Save for some pencilled notes relating to the Bogie family on the endpapers, the diary is unused and exhibits the minimum of wear. The rear free endpaper, which has been written on and is partly torn away, has been pasted to the pastedown. A few faint marks, but a very good copy, notwithstanding the missing leaves.

• GBP 75.00 > other currencies
• ordernr.: 18833

• bookseller: Ash Rare Books (GREAT BRITAIN)