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Ford’s Significant Run of the Bankers’ Magazine

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Ford’s Significant Run of the Bankers’ Magazine
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Bradford Rhodes & Co. [publisher]. RHODES’ JOURNAL OF BANKING. New Series. Vols. VIII-XII. [continued as] RHODES’ JOURNAL OF BANKING AND THE BANKERS’ MAGAZINE, CONSOLIDATED. Vols. LI-LXI. New York, 1881-85 and July 1895-December 1900. Sixteen complete volumes. Thick 8vo, later matching dark green leatherette backed green cloth; spines lettered and ruled in gilt with red lettering pieces, gilt; all page edges speckled red. viii, 912; viii, 968; (3)-1096; 1064, 15, (1); 952; (3)-8, 772; viii, 832; (2), vi, 760; vii, (1), 976; vi, (2), 946; vi, (2), 932; vi, (2), 1024; vii, (1), 928; vi, (2), 976; vii, (1), 934; viii, 984 pages; folding tables; text illustrations; fine portrait and other plates. Occasional minor faults, but a fine set overall. A major publication on American banking, still highly important. In July 1895, Rhodes’ Journal merged with the Bankers’ Magazine, becoming semi-annual Vol. LI in the latter series. Articles and features of numismatic interest include: “Coinage of the Silver Dollar”; “Demand for Branch Mints”; “Confederate Bonds”; “Bi-Metallic Currency”; reports by John Jay Knox; “Silver Dollar Coinage”; “Scarcity of Greenbacks”; “State Bank Notes Based on Silver Bullion”; “Silver Certificates and Standard Dollars”; “Gold Certificates”; “National Bank Circulation”; “Gold Certificates”; “Counterfeiting of Silver Dollars”; Knox’s History of Banking in the Unites States (serialized); etc. Ex John J. Ford, Jr., who had this set bound.