The Romance of the Bank of England

From the foreword: Such a volume as is here presented to the reader will, I believe, meet a public demand for information about our greatest non-political institution. I know of no greater change which has taken place in popular interest in the last twenty years than in matters relating to banking and allied questions. No subject is more discussed today than the relation of monetary policy to commercial and industrial conditions. Informed and uninformed persons are pouring forth books and pamphlets on the gold standard, a managed currency, and allied topics like a violent hailstorm. In this multitude of counsellors there is a good deal more confusion than wisdom. The writers are agreed on one thing only, namely in blaming the Bank of England for all the woes from which we suffer. But this book is not a treatise on the banking system. It is not an exposition or defence of the policy and practice of the Bank of England. It has a much more interesting and intelligible purpose. It is not controversial. It is a history of the rise of the banking system in England from the time when the Italian exchange bankers transsferred their operations from Lombardy to London to the day when "the City" became the world's great financial centre. ------------------------------------------- 288 pages, b/w photographs, index ---------- Orders of $100.00 or more are shipped using tracked courier delivery services. Size: Approx 5¾" - 9" Tall.