ROGERS (James E. Thorold).

The First Nine Years of the Bank of England. An Enquiry into a Weekly Record of the Price of Bank Stock from August 17 1694 to September 17, 1703.

First edition. 8vo. xxxi, [1], 183, [1], 8 [publisher’s advertisements] pp. Original brown cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, ruling continued to covers in blind, black-coated endpapers, top-edge untrimmed (neat early ownership inscription to half title, text-block split at p. 1, contents otherwise clean and unmarked partially unopened; minimal shelf-wear to edges, an excellent copy). Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1887.

£150.00
ROGERS (James E. Thorold).
The First Nine Years of the Bank of England. An Enquiry into a Weekly Record of the Price of Bank Stock from August 17 1694 to September 17, 1703.

‘The book is founded principally on J. Houghton’s price lists, Luttrell’s ‘Brief Relation’ and contemporary tracts’ (Stephens, Bibliography of the Bank of England, p. 111).

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