Stationer's Company Almanac for 1790.: >>NEAR MINIATURE EARLY ALMANAC<<

18 printed pages in red and black. "Verbum Domini Manet in Aeternum" - the motto and circular engraved coats of arms of the Stationers' Company has the stamp duty marked paid at one pence. With the feasts, calendar, holidays, a table of the reign of British Kings and Queens, details of the current Royal Family,transfer days at the bank, eclipses of sun etc. May has some contemporary ink date amendments. Contemporary ink inscription on blank leaves at end, "Nat Jarman aged 44 years old when he died his pocket book now Elizabeth Blake's". Provenance: Nathaniel Jarman. 70 x 139 mm. Near miniature. Original marbled card covers. Sewn into contemporary red goatskin purse cover with serpentine front edge (very slightly rubbed at edges). Tan embossed scrolling dentelles on inner calf lining with expanding pockets back and front. Original brass escutcheons, each clasp with ringed circular motifs and key hole (some very slight damage to the catch). Six pieces of related early ephemera and a near contemporary notebook included. Notebook with details of family and friends' births and deaths from 1822 to 1833. One manuscript note about this item's provenance. The other printed items family related for the most part. The South West Heritage Trust Somerset Archive catalogues a bundle of Jarman family papers, 1773-98 (marriage settlement of Nathaniel Jarman -son of John Jarman of Bishops Hull and Mary née Wyersdale- and Hannah Huthwaite of Nottingham 1774; surrender by Anne Wyersdale of lands and tenements in the hundred of Holway, Manor of Taunton Deane in favour of Nathan Jarman, 1773; copies of wills: Hannah Huthwaite of Nottingham, spinster 1777; Elizabeth Wyersdale of Charterhouse Square [Middlesex] 1780; John Spragging of Newark [Nottinghamshire] 1781; Mary Williams of Nottingham, dated and proved 1790; release of interest in the will of John Coape -Nathan Jarman executor- 1790; note re surrender of annuity receipts, 1773; lease for 14 years of tenement and 15a in Bishops Hull, Jarman to Dyke of Taunton, 1781; agreement to let land at Herne Hill [Kent] Jarman to Mead, 1798). An early Stationer's Company almanac in very good condition in a handsome contemporary purse style binding with original fittings and with an interesting and clear Somerset provenance. Seller Inventory # 5437