[Rarebooks] fa: WILLIAM HUSKISSON - CONCERNING THE DEPRECIATION OF OUR CURRENCY - 1819

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William Huskisson: The Question Concerning the Depreciation of our Currency Stated and Examined. New Edition. London: John Murray, 1819. Recent olive wraps in the style of the period; 8vo; [iii]-xxiii; 152 pp. Kress C.325; Goldsmiths 22460. Light browning to the title-page, mild toning to the rest of the text; scattered light spotting to the first and last few leaves; otherwise clean, firmly bound.

A work first published in 1810 when the author was a member of the Bullion Committee and took a leading role in the protest against an inflated paper currency. In it, Huskisson lays down his principles for a sound monetary system, principles similar to those of Ricardo, Mushet and Balke. A Member of Parliament, financier and leading political economist, William Huskisson (1770-1830) earned the more dubious distinction of being the world's first widely reported railway casualty, having been run over by George Stephenson's famous locomotive Rocket at the opening of the Liverpool and Manchester Railway.