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Title: British Banking and Currency
Description: Not Stated, Privately printed, 1990. First edition. Cloth. A very scarce privately printed catalogue of an exceptional collection of books, pamphlets and manuscripts on the history of British banking and currency; a valuable resource for students and professionals. A very scarce work in the original cloth binding, with a title label to the front board.Illustrated with a colour frontispiece, and sixty-nine plates, a couple of which are in colour. Collated, complete.An unusual catalogue of a major collection of books, pamphlets, and manuscripts illustrating the history and development of British banking and currency from the seventeenth to the twentieth centuries. This work draws together many sources including the Bank of England, the library of James Maitland, 8th Earl of Lauderdale, the Gurney family, and incorporating the James Holdsworth Collection on Savings Banks. A fantastic resource for students of economics or for professionals in this particular field, with a foreword by the former Deputy Governor of the Bank of England Sir George Blunden, and an introduction by Professor Forrest Capie. In the original cloth binding. Externally, very smart and bright. Front board is slightly warped. A couple of small marks to the rear board. Internally, firmly bound. Pages are very bright and clean. Fine . Ill.: Not Stated. Fine .

Keywords: British banking British currency Bank of England James Maitland British currency Gurney family Not Stated


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