BRISCOE'S LAND BANK -IMPORTANT ENGLISH BANKING TEXT 1696
A Discourse On the Late Funds of the Million-Act, Lottery-Act and Bank of England. Shewing, That they are... Ruinous to the Trade of the Nation. Together with Proposals for the Supplying their Majesties with Money on easy Terms.
London, Printed by J.D. for Andrew Bell, 1696.
Small 8vo, pp iv, 187, [1, adverts], bound in 19th Century half calf, rubbed and a bit worn, old library blindstamps to title and last leaf, lacking the folding table, else a good copy.
THIRD EDITION, an expanded version of the quarto pamphlets previously issued by Briscoe in 1694. 'John Briscoe was involved with High Chamberlain...in attempts to set up a Land Bank. in 'A Discourse...' he showed, using detailed costings, the very high cost to the Treasury of borrowing through the Million Act, the Lottery Act, and, most significantly, the newly established Bank of England...'
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A Discourse On the Late Funds of the Million-Act, Lottery-Act and Bank of England. Shewing, That they are... Ruinous to the Trade of the Nation. Together with Proposals for the Supplying their Majesties with Money on easy Terms.
London, Printed by J.D. for Andrew Bell, 1696.
Small 8vo, pp iv, 187, [1, adverts], bound in 19th Century half calf, rubbed and a bit worn, old library blindstamps to title and last leaf, lacking the folding table, else a good copy.
THIRD EDITION, an expanded version of the quarto pamphlets previously issued by Briscoe in 1694. 'John Briscoe was involved with High Chamberlain...in attempts to set up a Land Bank. in 'A Discourse...' he showed, using detailed costings, the very high cost to the Treasury of borrowing through the Million Act, the Lottery Act, and, most significantly, the newly established Bank of England...'
PRICE: £275.00 STOCK REF: 19438
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