The anatomy of Exchange-Alley : or, a system of stock-jobbing. Proving that scandalous trade, as it is now carry'd on, to be knavish in its private practice, and treason in its publick: Being a clear Detection I. Of the Private Cheats used to Deceive one another. II. Of their Arts to draw Innocent Families into their Snares, understood by their New Term of Art (viz.) (being let into the Secret.) III. Of their Raising and Spreading False News to Ground the Rise or Fall of Stocks upon. IV. Of their Joyning-With Traytors in Raising and Propagating Treasonable Rumours to Terrify and Discourage the People with Apprehensions of the Enemies to the Government. V. Of their Improving those Rumours, to make a Run upon the Bank, and Ruin publick Credit. VI. Of the dangerous Consequences of their Practises to the Government, and the Necessity there is to Regulate or Suppress them: To which is added, Some Characters of the most Eminent Persons concern'd now, and for some Years past, in Carrying on this Pernicious Trade. By a jobber.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Defoe, Daniel, 1661?-1731.

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 1.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Speculation--Early works to 1800.

Speculation.

Stock exchanges--Great Britain--Early works to 1800.

Stock exchanges.

Great Britain.

Physical Description:

2 unnumbered pages,64 pages ; 8⁰

Place of Publication:

London : printed for E. Smith near Exchange-Alley, [1719]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

text file

Notes:

A jobber = Daniel Defoe.

Price from imprint: Price One Shilling.

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. s2009 miunns

Reproduction of original from University of London's Goldsmiths' Library.

Cited in:

Moore, 414

Goldsmiths', 5556

Kress, 3097

Hanson, 2549

English Short Title Catalog, T69696.

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