Malcolm, Charles A. - The History of the British Linen Bank

Edinburgh, T. & A. Constable, 1950. orig.cloth. 25x16cm, xii,253,(30)pp. Frontispiece, 30 photoplates. Some rubbing, some small light stains to binding, VG. ¶ Contents: Introductory; The Company Commences Business; Early Years in Halkerston's Wynd; Decline of Home Trade; Difficulties in Foreign Trade; Transition to Banking; Development of Banking; From Moray House to Tweeddale Court; The 18th-Century Staff; In St. Andrew Square; The One Pount Note Attacked; Regulation of Note Issue; Crisis in the West; Capital & Reserves Increase; Affiliation; War-Time Banking; Bi-Centenary; Notes on Head Office & Branches; Governors, Deputy Governors, Directors, & General Managers; The Bank in Literature; Appendices: Petition for a Charter of Incorporation; The Original Proprietors; The Linen Bleach-Field; The War Memorial; Roll of Honour; Summary of Balance Sheets; Instructions to Messengers with Money Parcels.