1896 History of Banking in All Leading Nations First Edition Complete Set 4 Vols

Description: A History of Banking In All the Leading Nations; Comprising The United States; Great Britain; Germany; Austro-Hungary; France; Italy; Belgium; Spain; Switzerland; Portugal; Roumania; Russia; Holland; The Scandinavian Nations; Canada; China; Japan; Compiled by Thirteen Authors. Edited by the Editor of the Journal of Commerce and Commercial Bulletin. In Four Volumes. Published by The Journal of Commerce and Commercial Bulletin, 19 Beaver Street, New York. 1896. First Edition. Uniform & original binding measuring 9.25 x 6.5", 8vos. Vol. I: The United States, 485 pp; Vol. II: Great Britain, Russia, Savings-Banks in the United States, 495 pp; Vol. III: France, Italy, Belgium, Spain, Switzerland, Portugal, Roumania, Canada, 513 pp; Vol. IV: Germany, Austria-Hungary, Holland, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, Japan, China, 599 pp. In fair condition. All red cloth boards scuffed at edges and worn/bumped at corners. Heads of all spines bumped. Tails of spines scuffed; cloth fraying on Vol. IV. Gilt lettering on spines dulled from normal shelf-wear, but still legible. Very light foxing found on top edges. Text-blocks clean; light toning around edges of leaves. Vol. IV includes one fold-out chart, which is moderately toned and chipped on fore-edge from incorrect folding; last column difficult to read. Bindings are all intact. A complete set. Please see photos and ask questions, if any, before purchasing. A History of Banking in all the Leading Nations, first published in 1896 by The Journal of Commerce, is a four-volume history of banking in North America, Europe, China and Japan. At the time of publication it was described as "the largest and most expensive treatise on banking yet published". Thirteen authors contributed to the work, all of whom were considered "eminent as bankers, financiers and political economists". The title page bears the notice "Edited by the Editor of The Journal of Commerce and Commercial Bulletin" (i.e. William Dodsworth). The first volume, dedicated to the history of banking in the United States, was written by William Graham Sumner (who in many library catalogues is mistakenly listed as the editor of the series). The second volume contains a history of banking in Great Britain, by Henry Dunning Macleod, and in the Russian Empire, by Antoine E. Horn, editor of the Journal de St.-Pétersbourg, as well as a contribution on "Savings Banks in the United States" by John P. Townsend, president of the Bowery Savings Bank. The third volume provides contributions on the history of banking in the "Latin Nations" by Pierre des Essars (covering France, Italy, Spain, Belgium, Switzerland and Portugal), in Alsace-Lorraine by Arthur Raffalovich, and in Canada by Byron Edmund Walker. The fourth volume contains chapters on banking in Germany and Austria-Hungary by Max Wirth, in The Netherlands by Richard van der Borght, in the Scandinavian nations (Denmark, Sweden, and Norway) by the Danish economist and statistician Adolph Jensen, on Japan by Juichi Soyeda, and on China by Thomas R. Jernigan, American consul general in Shanghai. First Edition! Complete Set! Gift quality. FORN-SHELF-0693-BB-0524-HK1570

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