Sixteen Receipted Invoices. printed heading, signed "W. Gotelee", "G. Gotelee" and W.J. Gotelee", accounts of the "Surveyors of Binfield", the "Overseers of Binfield Parish", the "Churchwardens of Binfield"

Author: 
[PROVINCIAL]W. Gotelee, bookseller, printer and stationer.
Publication details: 
Wokingham and Market Place, Wokingham, Berks,1850[-1866].
£200.00
SKU: 5010

Sixteen invoices, all 8vo, good condition. They bought account books and stationery relevant to their function. The overseers, for example, bought a "Poor Rates Book", had "Rate Receipt books" and "Poor Rate Notices" printed by Gotelee. The surveyors' invoices listed "Printing 200 Highway Rate Receipts". The churchwardens had a "Book of Common Prayer" bound. The invoices reveal the breadth and evolution of the Gotelees' activities: Legacy Duty and Stamp Office; Patent Medicines, Perfumery, Combs & Brushes, bookseller, printer and stationer, Agent to the Farmers' Fire and Life Office; Stamp and Printing Office; Public Library & Stationery Warehouse, bookbinder; Bibles, Prayers, and Church Services; Pianofortes; New Music.