A select collection of scarce and valuable tracts and other publications on paper currency and banking, from the originals of Hume, Wallace, Thornton, Ricardo, Blake, Huskisson, and others : with a preface, notes, and index

Author(s)

• McCulloch, J. R. (John Ramsay)
• Douglass, William, ca.
• Hume, David
• Elibank, Patrick Murray, Baron
• Wallace, Robert
• Thornton, Henry
• Liverpool, Charles Jenkinson, Earl of
• Ricardo, David
• Great Britain. Parliament. House of Commons. Select Committee on the High Price of Gold Bullion
• Blake, William
• Huskisson, W. (William)

Bibliographic Information

A select collection of scarce and valuable tracts and other publications on paper currency and banking, from the originals of Hume, Wallace, Thornton, Ricardo, Blake, Huskisson, and others : with a preface, notes, and index

[s.n.], 1857

Other Title

Scarce and valuable tracts, &c., on paper currency and banking

Note

"This volume has been printed by Lord Overstone for distribution among his friends: the duty of editing it was undertaken by J.R. M'Culloch, Esq."--Verso of half t.p

Half title: Scarce and valuable tracts, &c., on paper currency and banking

Title on spine: Select tracts on paper currency &c

Each tract has also separate paging and some have special title pages

Includes index

Contents of Works

• A discourse concerning the currencies of the British plantations in America : especially with regard to their paper money : with a postscript thereto / [William Douglass]
• Banks and paper-money : from Essays, moral, political, &c. / by David Hume, Esq
• Essay on paper-money and banking : from Essays on the public debt, frugality, &c. / [Patrick Murray Elibank]
• Essay of banks and of paper credit : from Characteristics of the present state of Great Britain / [Robert Wallace]
• Note on the suspension of cash payments, at the Bank of England, in 1797
• The utility of country banks considered, &c
• An enquiry into the nature and effects of the paper credit of Great Britain / by Henry Thornton, Esq. ...
• Note on the state of the exchange between London and Dublin from 1797 to 1804
• Remarks on paper currency : from A treatise on the coins of the realm / by the Earl of Liverpool
• The high price of bullion : a proof of the depreciation of bank notes / by David Ricard. The fourth edition, corrected
• Report, from the Select Committee of the House of Commons, on the High Price of Gold Bullion
• Observations on the principles which regulate the course of exchange : and on the present depreciated state of the currency / by William Blake, Esq. ...
• The question concerning the depreciation of our currency stated and examined / by W. Huskisson, Esq. ...

Details

• NCID: BA10671720
• Country Code: uk
• Title Language Code: eng
• Text Language Code: eng
• Place of Publication: London
• Pages/Volumes: xx, 684 p.
• Size: 24 cm