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Book Condition: Used Near Fine
Seller: The Last Word

New Zealand
About Item: London: Dipple, 1847. First printing. Leather_bound. Near Fine. Bound in contemporary full calf with 5 raised bands to spine. Original cover bound into back Length 87 pages Edition Notes By the author of "Anti-Coningsby" (i.e. William North). Contributions Author of "Anti-Coningsby"., 1 plate : Notes on one of his other novels: Introducing a "Lost" Victorian novel: The Elusive William North and The City of the Jugglers (1850) What is the least known but most relevant novel of the 19th century? What if it began with a credit problem in the financial markets? It was about four o'clock on a spring afternoon. The City was still in full activity. The gold was rattling on the bank counters, and the clerks were cashing their notes as coolly as if the whole affair had been anything but a gigantic juggle. Practical men- too practical to think were paying in their deposits with a touching and child-like confidence. No suspicion had they that they were trusting to a system which, "like the baseless fabric of… Read More
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