Item #67347 A SHORT HISTORY OF PAPER MONEY AND BANKING IN THE UNITED STATES, Including an Account of Provincial and Continental Paper Money. To Which is Prefixed An Inquiry Into the Principles of the System, with Considerations of Its Effects on Morals and Happiness. William M. GOUGE.
A SHORT HISTORY OF PAPER MONEY AND BANKING IN THE UNITED STATES, Including an Account of Provincial and Continental Paper Money. To Which is Prefixed An Inquiry Into the Principles of the System, with Considerations of Its Effects on Morals and Happiness

A SHORT HISTORY OF PAPER MONEY AND BANKING IN THE UNITED STATES, Including an Account of Provincial and Continental Paper Money. To Which is Prefixed An Inquiry Into the Principles of the System, with Considerations of Its Effects on Morals and Happiness

Philadelphia, [PA]: Printed by T.W. Ustick, 1833. First edition. 12mo. 12, 140, 240 pp. Original cloth, rebacked, with recent printed paper label, and new endpapers. Scattered foxing and bumping to a few page corners. KRESS. C.3500. AMERICAN IMPRINTS 19075. Gouge was an opponent of banks, but gives a valuable description of the organization of state banks, and their abuses [see his biography in DAB]. Item #67347

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