First edition, first printing. xiv, 566pp, with black and white frontispiece. Red cloth-covered boards with gilt titles on the spine. Cloth worn, rounded on corners and spine ends. Upper text block edge dust darkened, hint of spotting on other edges. Harlech College bookplate on front paste down (indicating that the book was donated in memory of one Elphin Lloyd Jones). Tiny corner crease on front free endpaper else internally neat, clean and tight.
Chapter headings include Colonial Finance; Revolutionary Finance; Robert Morris, The Financier of the Revolution; Alexander Hamilton, Reconstruction after Revolution; Albert Gallatin; Stephen Girard and the Rise of Private Finance and Foreign Trade; Land Speculation; John Jacob Astor - The Adventure of the Fur Trade; Madison, Hamilton, and the First National Bank; Andrew Jackson and the Nicholas Biddle and the Fight Over the Break; Martin Van Buren and the Panic of 1837; etc., ending with Elbert H. Gray and the Philosophy of Modern Business.
