Book #74281
Item #74281 The Trades-man's Jewel: Or a Safe, Easie, Speedy and Effectual Means. William Potter.
The Trades-man's Jewel: Or a Safe, Easie, Speedy and Effectual Means..
The Trades-man's Jewel: Or a Safe, Easie, Speedy and Effectual Means..

The Trades-man's Jewel: Or a Safe, Easie, Speedy and Effectual Means..

An Early Argument for Central Banking Potter, William. The Trades-man's Jewel: Or a Safe, Easie, Speedy and Effectual Means, For the Incredible Advancement of Trade, And Multiplication of Riches; Shewing How Men of Indifferent Estates, May Abundantly Increase Both Their Own and Other Mens Trading and Riches, Without Parting With Money, Or Any Stock Out of Their Own Hands; By Making Their Bills to Become Current Instead of Money, And Frequently to Revolve Through Their Hands, With as Much in Money as the Sums Therein Mentioned Do Amount Unto. London: Printed by Edward Husband and John Field, 1650. 16 pp. Woodcut printer's device to last page. Quarto (6-3/4" x 5"). Stab-stitched pamphlet bound in recent three-quarter calf over marbled boards, blind rules to calf edges, gilt fillets and title to spine. Light toning to interior, light foxing to a few places, trimming to fore-edge affecting side notes on pp. 5-6 with loss to text but not legibility, brief recent pencil notes to title page. $2,500. * Only edition. One of two works by Potter on the same topic, this pamphlet advocates for the creation of banks to disburse bills of credit backed by a more central banking system "as firm as that of the Chamber of London, Bank of Amsterdam, or any Bills of Exchange" in order to advance trade. The Bank of England would be established in 1694. OCLC locates 3 copies of this title in North America (Harvard, Columbia, University of Illinois). The ESTC adds 1 North American copy (Folger Shakespeare). English Short-Title Catalogue (ESTC) R206533.

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