Gleanings From The Records of Zephaniah Job of Polperro

Frank H. Perrycoste

ISBN 10: 0955364825 / ISBN 13: 9780955364822

Edité par Polperro Heritage Press, Worcestershire U.K., 2007

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Condition : Near Fine. Binding : Pictorial Card Covers. 248pp. Very light bump to lower corner of upper cover. No P/O name, no inscription. Pages are bright and clean. Four b/w photographs: Frank Hill Perrycoste; John Clement's exercise book 1775; Polperro £5 note issued by Zephaniah Job; Polperro fishermen with net cart 1907. Printed by 'Orphans Press' Leominster, Hereford u.k. Frank Perrycostes Gleanings from the Records of Zephaniah Job of Polperro was first published in 1930 following a series of articles in the Cornish Times. Zephaniah Job was the 'Smugglers Banker' who financed the smuggling and privateering trade that flourished in Polperro during the later part of the 18th century. Perrycostes findings amount to one of the most comprehensive studies of life in Cornwall in the late 18th and early 19th centuries providing modern historians and students of the period with an invaluable source of information.

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: Gleanings From The Records of Zephaniah Job of Polperro
• Éditeur: Polperro Heritage Press, Worcestershire U.K.
• Date de parution: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0955364825
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780955364822
• Reliure: Couverture souple
• Édition: 2ème Édition
• Impression: 1er tirage
• État de l'article: Bon
• Dimensions: 130 L x 195 H x 15 P (en millimètres) 130 millimètres de largeur par 195 millimètres de hauteur par 15 millimètres de profondeur
• Poids: 279 grammes

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Synopsis

Frank Perrycoste's "Gleanings from the Records of Zephaniah Job of Polperro", first published in 1930, is based on a meticulous examination of the ledgers, letter books and other records discovered 100 years after the death of Zephaniah Job, the 'Smugglers' Banker who financed the smuggling and privateering trade that flourished in South East Cornwall during the latter part of the eighteenth century. It amounts to one of the most detailed and comprehensive studies of life in Cornwall in the late 18th and early 19th centuries, providing modern historians and students of the period with an invaluable source of information on wages, prices of commodities and a wide variety of other aspects of life in the county at that time.

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Frank Hill Perrycoste to live in Polperro, Cornwall, in 1898 where he developed a keen interest in local history. In the 1920s he was shown a large accumulation of papers, ledgers and letterbooks stored at Crumplehorn Mill that had once belonged to Zephaniah Job, the 'Smugglers' Banker' who financed the smuggling and privateering trade that flourished in Polperro in the late 18th and early 19th centuries. Perrycoste spent the last remaining years of his life, before his death in October 1930, sifting through the records. His findings amount to one of the most detailed and comprehensive studies of life in Cornwall in the late 18th and early 19th centuries.