A Handy Guide to Safe Investments;
forming a popular and practical treatise upon the nature and character of public securities; showing the several descriptions, with the mode of transacting business at the stock exchange, etc.
Stock Code 109825
London, Groombridge and Sons, [1858].
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An early reference guide aimed at the novice investor, defining key terms such as 'Bear... used opprobriously, and deservedly so, to those persons who, for private purposes, circulate false reports', and explaining fiscal concepts including the national debt, long annuities, and foreign securities.
OCLC records only three copies in institutional holdings (BL, National Library of Scotland, and Bodleian), to which COPAC adds one further (Trinity College, Dublin).
First edition; 12mo (17 x 11 cm); 24pp. publisher's ads. to rear; original blindstamped purple cloth, lettered in gilt to spine and upper cover, all edges gilt, spine and edges faded, corners slightly bumped; viii, 128, 16, [8]pp.
OCLC records only three copies in institutional holdings (BL, National Library of Scotland, and Bodleian), to which COPAC adds one further (Trinity College, Dublin).
First edition; 12mo (17 x 11 cm); 24pp. publisher's ads. to rear; original blindstamped purple cloth, lettered in gilt to spine and upper cover, all edges gilt, spine and edges faded, corners slightly bumped; viii, 128, 16, [8]pp.
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