Quarto. 68pp. Original publisher's green roan-backed drab paper boards, printed paper lettering-piece. Rubbed and marked, loss to head and foot of spine. Internally clean and crisp.

A late Georgian printed diary, extensively utilised in a single contemporary manuscript hand, recording the subscription payments of members of the Naval Annuitant Society. The Society was founded in 1823, at Devonport, Devon, to provide a stock or fund for paying annuities to the widows and children of deceased members in conformity with Parliamentary legislation.

The members recorded here are predominantly officers; lieutenants, captains, and majors. Subscription prices range from twenty to as high as fifty pounds – these funds being made available to a member in times of financial hardship, or, in the case of his death, his elected beneficiaries.