The Commercial Crisis 1847-1848;

£300 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

‘An exhaustive survey of the general crisis in the London markets as caused by the fall out from railway speculation, the French revolution, and the food and money panic’ (Dennistoun). James Purdy in London Banking Life (1876) writes: ‘The power is given to few men to trace the crises of nearly a quarter of a century, with the tact, the method, and the perseverance displayed, by the late David Morier Evans.’ David Morier Evans (1819-1874) was one of the most prolific Welsh financial journalists of the early Victorian period. Dennistoun, Bubbles, Booms and Busts, 60.

• Year: 1848

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