The Siege of Pater Noster Row, 1826
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[FINANCE] The Siege of Pater Noster Row: a moral satire: unfolding in heroic metre, certain secrets concerning literary trading, reviewing, advertising, puffing, paying debts, bill drawing, banking, metallic currency, funds, notes on demand, universal trading, the exchequer, the national debt, Bank of England, local banks, bubbles, and various other subjects, worthy the attention of the people: concluded with an account of the late bombardment: pointing also the way out of the scrape. By one Master Trimer, London, J. Wilkins, 1826
8vo, 51pp; some occasional spotting; recently rebound in marbled wrapper.
Rare verse satire in which ‘the funds and money-jobbing are sarcastically handled, and the banking system altogether exposed’ (p. 5). The author, one ‘Master Trimmer’, unveils the secrets of the Bank of England, National Debt, provincial banks –‘And when they can relieve of their contents/ The purses of old ladies and old squires, / It forms their summum bonum of desires, / Off they to London with the cash then rush, And into the Treadneedle madhouse push, / To make their fortunes mid the bulls and bears; / And in some projects new to purchase shares’ (p. 23) – the Funds, The Exchequer, Bubble Projects, The Money Market, - ‘The title “money market”, is all flash / Since not one dealer ever trades in cash: / But I securities for money lets / Of which, long since, the total has been spent!’ (p. 36).
Not in Goldsmiths’, Halkett & Laing or Kress: not recorded in NUC.
8vo, 51pp; some occasional spotting; recently rebound in marbled wrapper.
Rare verse satire in which ‘the funds and money-jobbing are sarcastically handled, and the banking system altogether exposed’ (p. 5). The author, one ‘Master Trimmer’, unveils the secrets of the Bank of England, National Debt, provincial banks –‘And when they can relieve of their contents/ The purses of old ladies and old squires, / It forms their summum bonum of desires, / Off they to London with the cash then rush, And into the Treadneedle madhouse push, / To make their fortunes mid the bulls and bears; / And in some projects new to purchase shares’ (p. 23) – the Funds, The Exchequer, Bubble Projects, The Money Market, - ‘The title “money market”, is all flash / Since not one dealer ever trades in cash: / But I securities for money lets / Of which, long since, the total has been spent!’ (p. 36).
Not in Goldsmiths’, Halkett & Laing or Kress: not recorded in NUC.
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