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D.p. O´brien - The Correspondence of Lord Overstone - 9781855066243 - V9781855066243
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The Correspondence of Lord Overstone

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Description for The Correspondence of Lord Overstone Hardcover. This text provides a transcription of some 923 letters to and from Samuel Jones Loyd, Lord Overstone, between 1804 and 1883. Overstone maintained that he had destroyed his correspondence before he died. The editor's discovery of some 350 of them in 1964 now offers an understanding of Overstone. Editor(s): O'Brien, D. P. Num Pages: 1680 pages, indexes. BIC Classification: 3JH; BGB; KCZ; KFFK. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 227 x 151 x 117. Weight in Grams: 2540.
Samuel Jones Loyd (1796-1883), first Baron Overstone, had an influence over cabinets and chancellors of the exchequer and the running and the laws of the Bank of England. Besides his own banking interests which made him one of the richest men in England, and his many tracts on currency and banking subjects, his library in Reading (which included over 10,000 volumes from his friend J.R. McCulloch) has become a major resource for economic scholars worldwide. This text provides a transcription of some 923 letters to and from Lord Overstone between 1804 and 1883. Overstone maintained that he had destroyed his ... Read more

Product Details

Publisher
Thoemmes Continuum
Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Condition
New
Number of Pages
1680
Place of Publication
Bristol, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781855066243
SKU
V9781855066243
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