Maggs Bros.

Being facts and figures illustrative of the events of that important period, considered in relation to the three epochs of the railway mania, the food and money panic, and the French Revolution. To which is added; an appendix, containing an alphabetical list of the English and foreign mercantile failures, with the balance sheets and statements, of the most important houses.

First edition. 8vo. viii, 151, lxxx [appendix], [16 publisher’s advertisement] pp. Later red leather with gilt title to spine, portion of original gilt brown cloth mounted to front cover (light uniform browning of paper stock, a few marginal pencil annotations, a rather functional copy). London, Letts, Son, and Steer, 1848.