The Drama of Money Making: Tragedy and Comedy of the London Stock Exchange.
MEREDITH, Hubert A.
The Drama of Money Making: Tragedy and Comedy of the London Stock Exchange.
First edition of Hubert A. Meredith's The Drama of Money Making
London: Simpson Low, Marston & Co., Ltd, nd [1930].
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First edition of Meredith’s entertaining collection of tales of the London Stock Exchange. Octavo, original cloth, engraved frontispiece portrait of Meredith. In near fine condition.
Written in an attempt to simply provide an evening's entertaining reading, Hubert's The Drama of Money making contains a broad collection of retellings of some of the funniest, and most tragic, tales of The London Stock Exchange. The collection includes Hubert's take on The Tulip Mania of 1634, The South Sea Bubble of 1720, The Railway Boom of 1845, The Bank of England Forgeries of 1873, and the Baring Crisis of 1890.
