1826 Boston Area Business Ledger with the first [21] pages used for news clippings

Boston: n/a, 1826. Ledger. Fair. Folio. [94] leaves (188 pages). Brown suede leather binding with Cambridge style designs on the covers. Marbled end papers. Chipped leather label on the spine. Lean to the binding in part due to removed pages. Hinges cracked and cords visible in the front hinge. No loose pages. Interior contents mostly clean. The first 21 pages used for pasted down serial clippings of the story titled "Only A Shop-Girl; or, A Pearl in Pledge. A Story Founded on Actual Events that Occurred in Boston by Nathan D. Urner" (no date). This serialized version ends on Chapter 25 with no more clippings to finish the story. Several of the ledger (truncated) leaves are neatly removed in the gutters. Dozens of accounts records remain from November, 1826 to July 15, 1830. A few clippings and paper left inside. Exact location and owner of the ledger unknown. Location is in Massachusetts and Boston areas with several places identified. A sampling of account names include Livery Stable; Wm White (printers); Tim M. Baker; Geo. Phipps (butcher); Peter Mackintosh; Genl John P. Boyd (officer in the Army and 1812 War Veteran); Gibson and Lewis; Charles Colburn (masons); Smith & Clapp; Sewell Fiske; Lombast & Whitmore; Eben Gay; Little & Eads; Wm Johnson (painters); Henry Leeds; Moses Fletcher; Benj F. Munroe; Capt. Mitchell; Commonwealth of Massachusetts; Rev. Henry Ware (Unitarian); James Bartlett; Tho Winslow; Charles Sterns; Charles Morse; Martin Burr; North Bank; S. P. Heywood; Jonas Hale; Capt. Goodridge; Capt. Henry Fowle and dozens others. (Inventory #: 29530)