Manuscript account book entitled 'Acco[un]t of Disbursem[en]ts transferred from Marble Covered Book (A)'.

Twenty-two leaves, stitched (last leaf loose), in original marbled wraps. 12mo (roughly ten centimeters by fifteen centimetres). Written in a small, neat hand, over columns ruled in red. In good condition although worn and dogeared, except for the loose leaf which is discoloured, frayed and worn, and rear wrap (which carries accounts on its interior), which has loss to the foot. Text entirely legible. Clearly part of the accounts of one of the 'morocco men' employed by contractors to travelled the country selling quarter, eighth and sixteenth-part shares in ten pound lottery tickets (see the entry on 'LOTTERIES' in Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th ed.). Gives details, including the name of the insurer and the lottery numbers of each ticket, of the insurance of quarter, eightth and sixteenth-parts in tickets (e.g. 'Novr 25 | Paid Mr Hodges [elsewhere 'Mr Hodges in Queen St'] for insuring the followg 8 Eighth parts B & P for 26th Novr. vizt. | 11m386 | 33m824 | [...] | } 0/15/0'.