SHARP, Granville. The Gilbart Prize Essay on the Adaptation of Recent Discoveries and Inventions in Science and Art to the Purposes of Practical Banking ... Third English Edition, with diagrams and illustrations, London: Groombridge and Sons, 1854. Large 8° (220 x 145mm). 2 engraved portraits, plates, specimens and printing samples, some folding, some printed on coloured paper, illustrations (occasional light spotting). Contemporary green half morocco gilt, top edges gilt (extremities rubbed and scuffed). Provenance: later presentation inscription on front free endpaper.