[Bank of England]. Some Observations upon the Bank of England, 1st edition, London: John Whitlock 1695, [2] 26 pp., stab-holes visible in gutter, dust-soiling to upper outer corners of quire A, light worming in fore margins just touching a letter in C2 verso and either side in final leaf D2, modern pencil annotation and inked letter 'C' in a contemporary hand to head of title-page, 20th-century pink crushed morocco backing marbled boards, 4to (19.2 x 14.2 cm) (Qty: 1) Provenance: Sotheby's, 31 October 1979, lot 278 (lot ticket laid in). ESTC R37574 (nine copies in UK libraries); Kress 1921; Wing S4539. Rare anonymous pamphlet published the year after the Bank's founding and issuing a lively challenge to its critics, in particular land bank campaigner Hugh Chamberlen (1630x4-c.1720). The author may be Bank founder William Paterson (1658-1719), whose own pamphlet, A Brief Account of the Intended Bank of England (see lot 274) and the various responses to it, including Chamberlen's, are mentioned at page 18: 'The Bank of England hath not only the griping Extortioners, and the Cramp-headed Politicans of our Time to struggle with, but a gang of protest Doctors and others learned in Banks, are setting up for Authors against it'. No other copy traced in auction records.
[Bank of England]. Some Observations upon the Bank of England, 1st edition, London: John Whitlock 1695, [2] 26 pp., stab-holes visible in gutter, dust-soiling to upper outer corners of quire A, light worming in fore margins just touching a letter in C2 verso and either side in final leaf D2, modern pencil annotation and inked letter 'C' in a contemporary hand to head of title-page, 20th-century pink crushed morocco backing marbled boards, 4to (19.2 x 14.2 cm) (Qty: 1) Provenance: Sotheby's, 31 October 1979, lot 278 (lot ticket laid in). ESTC R37574 (nine copies in UK libraries); Kress 1921; Wing S4539. Rare anonymous pamphlet published the year after the Bank's founding and issuing a lively challenge to its critics, in particular land bank campaigner Hugh Chamberlen (1630x4-c.1720). The author may be Bank founder William Paterson (1658-1719), whose own pamphlet, A Brief Account of the Intended Bank of England (see lot 274) and the various responses to it, including Chamberlen's, are mentioned at page 18: 'The Bank of England hath not only the griping Extortioners, and the Cramp-headed Politicans of our Time to struggle with, but a gang of protest Doctors and others learned in Banks, are setting up for Authors against it'. No other copy traced in auction records.
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