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EVANS, D. Morier. The commercial crisis, 1847-1848; and facts and figures illustrative of the events of that important period, considered in relation to the three epochs of the railway mania, the food and money panic, and the french revolution.

London. Printed and published by Letts, Son, and Steer, 1849. Second edition.
8vo. xi, [5], 155, [1], ci pp, [19]. With nine terminal leaves of publisher's advertisements. Original publisher's blind-stamped brown cloth, lettered in gilt to spine and upper board. Lightly rubbed and marked, spine sunned. Inked ownership inscription to head of title page, scattered spotting.
A revised and enlarged edition of an authoritative analysis, by financial journalist David Morier Evans (1819-1874), of the Commercial Crisis of 1847, a national panic triggered in part by the collapse of railway stock.
£ 200.00 Antiquates Ref: 31757