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[CAPPS, Edward]
The nation in a dilemma;or, which shall we alter? The currency or the mode of taxation? By the author of "The Currency Question in a Nutshell". Second edition, revised and corrected.
1843 - 12mo, 48pp, recently well bound in linen-backed marbled boards lettered.
Goldsmiths 33303. Kress C.6020. Not in Black.

 
Price : GBP£ 75
  
 

[SOCIETY FOR THE EMANCIPATION OF INDUSTRY]
Emancipation of industry. No.I - No.V [of VIII?].
- 5 parts in one vol., 12mo, drophead titles, 12 + 12 + 12 + 23 + (1) + 12pp, recently well bound in blue boards lettered. Very good copies.
Apparently 2nd edition of No.II but first editions of Nos.I and III-V.

 
Price : GBP£ 165
  
 

ROCHON, Alexis Marie de
Compte rendu des expériences qui ont été faites sur la Monnoie coulée et moulée en métal de cloches.
1791 - 8vo, (ii) + 17 + (1)pp, contemporary quarter calf and mottled boards, gilt, a little worn. First edition. Goldsmiths 14926. Kress B.2184. Lipsius p.338.
(bound with),
ROCHON, Alexis Marie de Essai sur les Monnoies anciennes et modernes. Paris, chez L.F. Prault, 1792. 8vo, xvi + 167 + (1)pp, with 6 folding copper engraved plates.*
First edition. Goldsmiths 15321. Kress B.2398. Lipsius p.338.
(bound with),
ROCHON, Alexis Marie de Apperçu presenté au comité de l'Assemblée nationale, des avantages qui peuvent résulter de la conversion du métal de cloches en Monnoie moulée, pour faciliter l'échange des petits assignats. (n.p., Paris?, 1791). 8vo, caption title, 23 + (1)pp.
First edition. Goldsmiths 14925. Kress B.2183. Lipsius p.338. Masui p.456.

currency, finance
  
Price : GBP£ 300
  
 

[TAYLOR, John]
Currency explained; in refutation of the last fallacy of "The Times", 8 Nov. 1843.By Verus.
1843 - 8vo., 30 + (2)pp., including the half-title and final leaf (imprint recto, advertisements verso), first and last leaves soiled, small library inkstamp on verso of title, in recent cloth.
First separate edition: uncommon. Goldsmiths 33349. Kress C.6177. Not in Black or Cotton & Little.
currency
  
Price : GBP£ 75
  
 

COBBETT, William
Paper against gold:containing the history and mystery of the Bank of England, the funds, the debt, the sinking fund, the Bank stoppage, the lowering and the raising of the value of paper-money; and showing, that taxation, pauperism, poverty, misery and crimes have all increased, and ever must increase, with a funding system.
1817 - 8vo, drophead title, viii + 470 columns (i.e. 239pp.), occasional paper-browning and foxing, contemporary, perhaps original, boards rebacked, edges of boards worn, entirely uncut. A good large copy but bound without Clement's advertisements sometimes found.
Second separate edition but first edition with this title. Pearl 81. Kress B.6892. Goldsmiths 21803.
Bank of England, bank notes, currency
  
Price : GBP£ 150
  
 

WHITMORE, W.W.
A letter on the present state and future prospects of agriculture.Addressed to the agriculturists of the County of Salop.
1822 - 8vo, (4) + 86 + (2)pp, complete with the half-title and final leaf of advertisements, stitched as issued, uncut. A nice copy.
First edition.

 
Price : GBP£ 95
  
 

JOHNSTONE, [George]
The speech of Mr. Johnstone, on the third reading of the Bill for preventing the gold coin of the realm from being paid or accepted for a greater value than the current value of such coin;commonly called Lord Stanhope's Bill. Friday, the 19th of July, 1811.
1811 - 8vo., (2) + 111 + (1)pp., wanting the half-title, recently well bound in linen-backed marbled boards lettered. A very good copy.
First edition. Amex 243. Goldsmiths 20316. Kress B.5846. Stephens p.45. Cotton & Little p.218. Not in Black.
Bullion Report, Bank of England, currency
  
Price : GBP£ 250
  
 

"SPECTATOR"
A plan of banking & currency, to unite the Bank of England, joint-stock, and private banks in one system, without injury to any.By Spectator.
1844 - 8vo., 16pp., recently well bound in cloth lettered in gilt. A very good copy.
First, and only, edition: rare.
Bank of England, banking
  
Price : GBP£ 250
  
 

[BULLION REPORT]
Report, together with minutes of evidence, and accounts, from the Select Committee on the High Price of Gold Bullion,and to take into consideration the state of the circulating medium, and of the exchanges between Great Britain and foreign parts. [Ordered, by The House of Commons, to be printed, 8 June 1810].
1810 - 8vo, x + (2) + 78 + (2) + 237 + (3) + 115 + (1)pp, a little very minor spotting of title page and a few other leaves, small blank strip cut away from upper margin of title (partially removing a name), small repair to inner blank margin, occasional emphasis marks in the text in pencil, in a fine later 19th century binding of half calf over marbled boards, spine with raised bands and crimson label lettered in gilt. A handsome copy.
First trade edition [published a month after the very rare original folio Report of August 1810]. Amex 60. Goldsmiths 20056. Ford & Ford, XI, 14. McCulloch p.173. Hollander 2552.

 
Price : GBP£ 1250
  
 

"COMMONER"
A letter to the King; shewing, by incontestible facts, the fundamental causes of our unexampled national distress;and containing a proposition whereby we may hope to obtain substantial and permanent relief compatibly with the preservation of the established order of society: in contradistinction to the puerile schemes and fallacious theories of Messrs. Baring, Ricardo, Heathfield, and the whole fraternity of paper money men without real capital. By a Commoner.
1820 - 8vo., 64pp., title-page rather soiled, tiny holes in outer margin of a few leaves (nowhere near text), recently well bound in cloth, spine lettered in gilt.
First edition: rare. Goldsmiths 22912. Kress C.566.
banking, currency, Ricardo, Heathfield
  
Price : GBP£ 450
  
 

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