A stock certificate issued during the period of the South Sea Bubble mania. Such certificates were often depicted in contemporary prints as being blown away from the hands of investors by the wind of changing fortune.
Description:
Blanks filled in: No. 921, June 13, 1720. Enter’d per MJ. Jno. Hayles, secretary.
Publisher:
s.n
Subject (Geographic):
Bremen (Germany : Duchy), Germany --Commerce --Great Britain, Great Britain --Commerce --Germany, Hamburg (Germany), and Hannover (Germany)
Subject (Topic):
Lumber trade --Germany, Lumber trade --Great Britain, Mercantile system --Great Britain --History --18th century, South Sea Bubble, Great Britain, 1720, and Stock certificates --Specimens
A compendious retractation, A lamentable complaint, A paradox, A patheticall apology, A potent vindication, A warning piece for England, and Disaster for bookemaking, with his Ship in division
Publisher:
Printed for Iohn Clerke in Corne-hill, VVilliam Hope at the Exchange, VVilliam Lee at Paules-chaine, and John Browne under Saint Dunstones church. Vivat rex
BEIN Pequot Z96: Imperfect: pages 71-73 and [1] page at end wanting. Number 5 of 6 titles bound together in brown, blind tooled leather binding with manuscript call number label on spine., The dedicatory epistle signed: John Graunt who was from Bucklersbury and who flourished between 1640-1652; not to be confused with John Graunt, F.R.S., 1620-1674, a statistician from Hampshire who also published during that period. See B.M. Cat and D.N.B., With a title page woodcut., Head-pieces; initials., and Signatures: A² B-K⁴ chi1 (leaf A2 signed A3).
Publisher:
Printed for H.R. at the Three Pigeons in Pauls church-yard
Subject (Geographic):
England and Great Britain
Subject (Topic):
Dissenters, Religious, Christian sects, Church, Unity, and Church history
An alteration of Fletcher's play. and The preface concerning the Earl of Rochester is by Robert Wolseley.
Publisher:
Printed for Henry Herringman, and are to be sold by Jos. Knight, and Fr. Saunders, at the sign of the Blue Anchor in the lower walk of the New-Exchange