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[DEFOE, Daniel] (1659?-1731) The Anatomy of Exchange-Alley: or, a System of Stock-Jobbing. Proving that Scandalous Trade, as it is now carry'd on, to be Knavish in its Private Practice, and Treason in its Publick ... by a Jobber. London: E. Smith, 1719.
8° (184 x 110mm.) (Very lightly browned throughout). Modern calf. Provenance: Kenneth K. Knight (sale Christie's, 31 October 1979, lot 139).
FIRST EDITION of Defoe's denunciation of stock-jobbers which, written very much in his journalistic style, accuses these 'rogues and cheats' of every mercantile trick in the book. Moore 414; Kress 3097; Goldsmiths' 5556.
8° (184 x 110mm.) (Very lightly browned throughout). Modern calf. Provenance: Kenneth K. Knight (sale Christie's, 31 October 1979, lot 139).
FIRST EDITION of Defoe's denunciation of stock-jobbers which, written very much in his journalistic style, accuses these 'rogues and cheats' of every mercantile trick in the book. Moore 414; Kress 3097; Goldsmiths' 5556.
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