First edition, first printing. 8vo. ix, [5], 391, [1] pp., frontispiece portrait of John Law. Original black cloth, spine lettered and ruled in gilt, dust jacket (contents clean and fresh; just a hint of minor creasing to jacket, a fine copy). Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1997.
A really excellent biography of the Scottish financier John Law (1671-1729), best-known for the spectacular collapse of his ‘System’ in the Mississippi Bubble of 1720, widely described as the world’s first global financial crash.
