First edition. Two volumes. 8vo. x, 306; viii, 460 pp., with 12 plates. Original blue cloth, spines lettered and ruled in gilt, dust jackets (small Heffer's bookseller's label to front pastedowns of both volumes, faint creasing to front free endpaper of Vol. 2, contents otherwise clean and unmarked; light wear to extremities of jackets, spine panels slightly faded with minor chipping at ends, notwithstanding an excellent copy, nicer than usual). Cambridge, At the University Press, 1944.
A major historical study of the Bank of England from its foundation through to the Second World War, commissioned by the Bank and published to mark its 250th anniversary. The distinguished economic historian Sir John Clapham (1873-1946) was given free rein with the Bank's surviving books and papers, and the work remains of vital importance.
