The Curse of Paper-Money and Banking, or, A Short History of Banking in the United States of America: With an Account of its Ruinous Effects on Landowners, Farmers, Traders, and on all the Industrious Classes of the Community

William M Gouge

London : Published at 11, Bolt Court, Fleet Street; and to be had of all booksellers, 1833

[An English Warning against Free-wheeling Early American Banks.] Bound in contemporary cloth-backed boards.  Rebacked, with modern cloth spine.  Collated: xxii, [2], 200 pages + 12 p. catalogue. p.39 with closed tear crossing text.  Early signature of A.S. Johnson.  Kress C3499.

First English edition, printed the same year as the Philadelphia ed.  Contains chapters on the Old Bank of the United States; histories of banking from 1790 to 1821; banking in the Western, south-western, southern, New England states; general view of banking operations from 1814-1829.