BIB_ID
196149
Accession number
MA 13999
Creator
Dibdin, Thomas Frognall, 1776-1847.
Display Date
London, England, 1817 December 15.
Credit line
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Description
1 item (1 page) ; 23.1 x 18.6 cm
Notes
The recipient may be identified as either John Hering, the brother and successor of the bookbinder Charles Hering Sr. (d. 1815), a prominent London binder whom Dibdin employed on a regular basis, or Charles's son, Charles Hering Jr., who, along with his uncle, succeeded his father in operating the Hering bindery during the years immediately following Hering Sr.'s death.
With a note at head of sheet: Received of Mr. Herring [sic] seven pound six and sixpence for Mr T.F. Dibdin [signature illegible].
With a note at head of sheet: Received of Mr. Herring [sic] seven pound six and sixpence for Mr T.F. Dibdin [signature illegible].
Provenance
Bequest of Gordon N. Ray, 1987.
Summary
Writing the bookbinder Hering to request payment for a large paper copy of his Bibliographical Decameron and expressing the opinion that he should receive a deduction in his outstanding balance with Hering "owing to the extravagant manner in which Jones's Biographia Drammatica [sic] was bound - contrary to Mr D's instructions."
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