First edition. 8vo. x, 218, [2, publisher’s advertisements] pp. Original brick red cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, ruling continued to boards in blind (neat contemporary ownership to half title, partial offsetting and foxing to endpapers, otherwise internally clean and unmarked; the cloth remains bright and virtually unworn, a near fine, notably bright copy). London, Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1914.
An analysis of the financial system of Britain by the distinguished economic historian and civil servant Henry Higgs (1864-1940), ‘an attempt to provide a connected account of governmental financial procedure’ (New Palgrave).