The Bubbles Of Finance : Joint Stock Companies, Promoting Of Companies, Modern Commerce, Money Lending, And Life Insuring

A City Man [ Meason, Malcolm Ronald Laing ]

Published by Sampson Low, Son And Marston - Milton House, Ludgate Hill, 1865

About this Item

Cloth, P+viii+261pp+2pp publishers adverts, cloth very won & rubbed, the binding has come apart at page 16 leaving the stiching exposed, occasional marking to the text, a copy in need of restoration. Malcolm Ronald Laing Meason [ 1820 - 1889 ] military offier who served in the second Afghan and Gwalior campaigns. After leaving the Army he turned to journalism, with the bulk of this work having appeared in Charles Dickens' 'All the Year Round'. He was noted for publishing books on fraudulent financial practices, particularly those of joint stock companies : The Bubbles of Finance, [1865], The Profits of Panics, [1866], Turf Frauds and Turf Practices; or, Spiders and Flies, [1868], Sir William's Speculations; or, The Seamy Side of Finance [1886]. 450 grams.

Seller Inventory # 61434

Bibliographic Details

• Title: The Bubbles Of Finance : Joint Stock Companies, Promoting Of Companies, Modern Commerce, Money Lending, And Life Insuring
• Publisher: Sampson Low, Son And Marston - Milton House, Ludgate Hill
• Publication Date: 1865
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st edition.
• Condition: Poor
• Weight: 450 grams
• Seller catalogs:
  • Economics
  • Poetry