Content Description | The volume contains accounts and abstracts estimating values of imports and exports of the Port of London, and their values with a new subsidy paid thereon.
Destinations include ports in Africa, the East Indies, Spain, Portugal, Sweden, Turkey, Italy, Germany, Jersey, Guernsey and Scotland. There are also details for English plantations in the Americas.
Goods mentioned include tobacco, wine and vinegar. |
Descriptive Features | Watermark: Fleur de lis, free standing, fragmented, approx. 50 x 40 mm (Type A)
Watermark: Strasbourg lily, large fleur de lis within crowned shield and insignia 4WR below the shield, fragmented, approx, 150 x 90 mm (Type B)
Countermark: Letters IP (fragment), approx. 16 x 30 mm (With Type B)
Professional presentation copy mostly in cursive script
On ruled paper
Vellum on pasteboard, gold stamped with a single fillet along four borders of upper and lower covers, with an oblong panel enmarked by single fillet lines and a motif made up of an acorn with two leaves stamped on four outer corners of central panel; same gold-stamped decoration is on upper and lower covers; volume closes with two black metal clasps finely engraved with a flower and leaves ornament; spine is divided into eight panels, divided by gold stamped fillet lines; front and back pastedowns and flyleaves are of marble paper; volume is gold graphed. |