Paper against gold
Subtitle: containing the history and mystery of the Bank of England, the funds, the debt, the sinking fund, the bank stoppage, the lowering and the raising of the value of paper-money; and shewing, that taxation, pauperism, poverty, misery and crimes have all increased, and ever must increase, with a funding system
Contributors: Francis Place Library (Columbia University. Libraries)
Publisher: [W. Cobbett jun.]
Published: 1817
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 470
Subjects: Paper money; Finance; Bank of England
Other titles: Paper against gold and glory against prosperity.
Notes: In thirty-two letters.

"It consists of a series of letters, addressed to the people of Salisbury, in the year 1810 and 1811; because, at that time, those people were suffering from the failure of country banks."--Cf. Introduction.

First published in 1815 under the title: Paper against gold and glory against prosperity.

Printed in double columns.

Rare Book copy: Removed from vol. 1, no. 1 of the Francis Place Library.

Rare Book copy: Wrapper wanting. Francis Place's manuscript notes in pencil on four final leaves; unsigned.