Report to the Board of Trade on Banks, Banking, and Life Assurance; from Bentley's Registry of Bank and Life Assurance Accounts; Established 1845. [The Fourth Report].
London: Joseph Bentley, n.d. [1867]. First edition. Hardcover. 160pp, of which the last 6 are advertisements. A vigorous indictment of the banking practises of the 1860s and earlier, and of the failures of the Board of Trade to regulate these and to inform the public. Contents fresh and clean but..... More