RIPLEY, Percy.
A short history of investment.
London, Sir Isaac Pitman & Sons, Ltd., 1934.
8vo, pp. xiii, [i, blank], 214, + 28 pp. publisher’s catalogue, with a folding plate between pp. 200-201, small tear to margin of final advertisement leaf, otherwise a good, clean copy, bound in the publisher’s cloth, with upper cover and spine lettered in gilt, spine ends lightly worn, with the stamp of Nathan and Rosselli Stock & Share Brokers to the recto of the front free endpaper.
First edition of this work aimed at a British audience of bankers, members of the Stock Exchange and City workers, charting the history of investment from early times and the Elizabethans through to 1933, passing both prosperity, and tragedy and national debt. The work is dedicated to the financial journalist and economist Sir George Paish, ‘friend and counsellor of many years’.
Dennistoun and Goodman 300.
