{"title":"Economics","description":"","products":[{"product_id":"north-w-the-city-of-the-jugglers-or-free-trade-in-souls-1850-4943","title":"The City of the Jugglers; or, Free-Trade in Souls.","description":"A Romance of the \"Golden\" Age.\u003cbr\u003eLondon: H.J.Gibbs.. 1850.\u003cbr\u003e\u003ch4 class=\"vrb_heading\"\u003e\"Soul exchange\"\u003c\/h4\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"vrb_desc\"\u003eFirst edition. 199x120mm. pp. xii, 250 [2bl, 5 publisher's adverts, 1bl]. Frontispiece and three etchings by F.H.T.Bellew. Modern brown cloth, slight rubbing to extremities. Frontispiece is a little chipped along fore-edge and all plates are a little foxed and there is offsetting from them. Some other light foxing and marking elsewhere but otherwise a very good copy of a rare book, only two appearing in the auction records in the last century and OCLC locating only ten copies.\u003cbr\u003eThis 1850 edition was, it seems, the only edition of this strange novel until the University of South Carolina Press reprinted it, with no doubt unintended irony, in the 2008, the year of the great financial crash. \u003cem\u003eThe City of the Jugglers\u003c\/em\u003e is a satire on the stock market frenzies of the 1840 and describes how, following a financial crash, there develops a futures market in human souls. A strange fantasy on the relation between mammon and the spirit. Incidentally, the frontispiece contains a portrait of the author asleep and dreaming of this \"soul exchange\". This is thought to be the only portrait of one of the most elusive of Victorian writers.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"vrb_note\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"vrb_prov\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cspan class=\"vrb_biblio\"\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e","brand":"NORTH, W","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57193335554425,"sku":"4943","price":1250.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/files\/4943_1.jpg?v=1777655498"},{"product_id":"on-the-security-and-manufacture-of-bank-notes","title":"On the security and manufacture of bank notes.","description":"\u003cp\u003eLondon: Published by Bradbury and Evans, Whitefriars. 1856.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFirst edition. 278x215mm. pp. [6], 30. Three engraved plates of specimen bank notes for a ten pound and a hundred pound banknotes. Publisher's printed wrappers with a new lower cover and spine. Tear to top right corner of upper cover with minor loss, chipping to fore-edge and some small marginal holes in the final leaf (not affecting the text) but overall a very good copy of a commercially rare work, only two copies appearing in the auction records. \u003cbr\u003eHenry Bradbury (1829-1860) was a printer who, with \u003cem\u003eThe Ferns of Great Britain and Ireland, \u003c\/em\u003erevolutionised nature printing. 1856 saw him begin to take an interest in the printing of banknotes and the security issues that arose from this. This Royal Institution lecture, printed here by his father's firm, was intended to explain the ease with which banknotes were being forged. He advised the use of engraving on watermarks but with the proviso that if this did not work, then the Government should offer a reward to whoever could resolve the question of how best to print unforgeable banknotes. At about the same time as giving this lecture, Bradbury established his own company (Bradbury Wilkinson \u0026amp; Co) to engrave and print banknotes. It lasted until 1990. Bradbury himself was a troubled soul. He was accused of plagiarising his technique of nature printing from the Viennese Imperial Printer Alois Auer. This was a dispute that rumbled on, ending only in 1860 when Bradbury committed suicide by drinking prussic acid.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"BRADBURY, Henry","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":57222578995577,"sku":"5144","price":4500.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1484\/0910\/files\/BradburyBanknotes_77839481-9b05-4bfb-b812-83a1a5436a2a.jpg?v=1778075929"}],"url":"https:\/\/voewoodrarebooks.com\/collections\/economics.oembed","provider":"Voewood Rare Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}