First edition. 8vo. xii, 316 pp. Original brown embossed cloth, spine lettered in gilt, floral decorated endpapers (a few small spots to edges of text-block, contents faintly toned but otherwise clean and unmarked; light shelf-wear to extremities, an excellent copy). New York, Homans Publishing Company, 1884.
A general introductory work on the banking system. The author, Albert Sidney Bolles (1845-1939) was a prolific writer on finance and editor of The Bankers’ Magazine from 1880 to 1894.
