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A Caution to Bankers Merchants and Manufacturers against a series of commercial frauds prevalent throughout Great Britain and Ireland.
1831réf. 169340Edinburgh: Printed and sold for Friends of Commerce in England Scotland and Ireland 1831. Reforming bankruptcy First edition presentation copy inscribed to "Mr Vizard" presumably the prominent lawyer William Vizard 1774-1859 who was in 1831 the active and reform-minded secretary of bankrupts under Lord Grey. The Caution to Bankers is a manifesto-handbook by one of the earliest trade protection societies in Britain. The bankruptcy system and its potential for exploitation was a key concern of the Friends who complain in the Caution of its lack of subtlety and the opportunities it provided for dishonest figures to "take the benefit of the insolvent and bankrupt laws easily arrange matters for making all appear fair and just when they come to be examined by the Judges and Commissioners" p. 31. Vizard together with Brougham as Lord Chancellor was in 1831 engaged on the long-anticipated project of removing bankruptcy from the jurisdiction of chancery and of establishing dedicated bankruptcy courts. The inscription - "Mr Vizard with best respects from the Editor" - is on the front free endpaper. Octavo 220 x 139 mm pp. iv ii ii ii 148 24. Contemporary brown cloth-backed blue boards spine with later printed label edges uncut. Light bumping and rubbing front free endpaper re-inserted several gutters split minor foxing and browning to contents: a very good copy. Goldsmiths' 26740. hardcover
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