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Cobbett's Paper against gold : containing the history and mystery of the Bank of England, the funds, the debt, the sinking fund, the bank stoppage, the lowering and the raising of the value of paper-money : and shewing, that taxation, pauperism, poverty, misery and crimes have all increased, and ever must increase, with a funding system.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania - Closed Stacks Am 1817 Cobb LCP Old HSP Kd 847
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Cobbett, William, 1763-1835 7783
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Paper money--Great Britain.
- Paper money.
- Finance--Great Britain.
- Finance.
- Physical Description:
- viii, 470 columns ; 22 cm.
- Other Title:
- Paper against gold.
- Place of Publication:
- [London] : W. Cobbett, [1817] (W. Molineux)
- Notes:
- Spine title: Paper against gold.
- Two columns to the page.
- Printed in double columns.
- First published in 1815 under the title: Paper against gold and glory against prosperity.
- Signatures: A-P[superscript 8].
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Local Notes:
- Caption title.
- "It consists of a series of letters addressed to the people of Salisbury, in the year 1810 and 1811; because, at that time, those people were suffering from the failure of country banks."--Cf. Introduction.
- Retrospective conversion record: MARC Link database.
- HSP in LCP.
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