Account book and memorandum book of Thomas Sharp [manuscript], 1744-1815.
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Title
Account book and memorandum book of Thomas Sharp [manuscript], 1744-1815.
Cover title
Original memorandum book of Tho. Sharp of Stratford-on-Avon
Description
1 v.
Associated name
Scope and content
The account book of Thomas Sharp, clockmaker of Stratford, continued by his successor, Thomas Gibbs. Most of the entries are of contracts which Sharp made to keep clocks and watches in order. Family births and deaths are entered on p. 84-86. On page 186 is a statement that his former assistant, Thomas Gibbs, had bought from Sharp's widow the remaining wood from the mulberry tree said to have been planted by Shakespeare and that she would take an oath that it was "the Royal [sic] wood." This book and a portion of the wood were later purchased at Gibbs's sale by J.O. Halliwell-Phillipps.
Binding information
Brown morocco (for Halliwell-Phillipps by F. Bedford).
Cited/described in
Halliwell-Phillipps, J.O. Calendar of the Shakespearean rarities, drawings & engravings formerly preserved at Hollingbury Copse (1891), 78
Call number
M.a.41
Folger accession
cs448