Item #392420 The principles of currency : six lectures delivered at Oxford / by Bonamy Price ... with a letter from M. Michel Chevalier on the history of the treaty of commerce with France. Bonamy Price.

The principles of currency : six lectures delivered at Oxford / by Bonamy Price ... with a letter from M. Michel Chevalier on the history of the treaty of commerce with France

1869, 1st edition. Oxford and London : J. Parker and Co. Provenance: Bookplate of John Pearson. Good copy in the original gilt-blocked cloth. Spine bands and panel edges somewhat bumped and rubbed as with age. Minor pencil marginal marks remain. Remains quite well-preserved overall. Item #392420

Physical description; 246 pp., 22 cm. Contents; Inaugural lecture.--Metallic currency.--What is a bank?--Paper currency.--The bank charter of 1844, and Mr. Mill's doctrine of money.--The money market and gold.--Drains and rates of discount.--M. Michel Chevalier on the history of the treaty of commerce with France.--Mr. Gairdner on banking and currency. Subjects; Currency question Great Britain. Money. Monetarism Economics.

Price: €125.00

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