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[PRICE ONE SHILLING.] 



^" A Little Book for Every Holder of 

 Consols and for every Counting-House 

 and Private Desk in the Land. 



TALES 



PLEASANT AND TRAGIC 



OF 



THE BANK OF ENGLAND, 



ITS FAITHFUL AND UNTKUE SERVANTS, 



ANCIENT FOES AND TIME-TRIED FRIENDS, 



CLOSE PINCHES AND NARROW ESCAPES; 



WITH 



PORTRAITS AND ANECDOTES 



OF 



THE FOUNDER OF THE BANK— THE OLD BANKERS, 



CITY CELEBRITIES AND MERCHANTS; GRESHAM AND THE CITY 



GRASSHOPPER; 



MARTINS, CHILDS, ROTHSCHILDS, BARINGS, COUTTS, 



THE GOLDSMIDS, &c. 



WARD'S PICTURE OF "THE SOUTH SEA BUBBLE."— THE ROMAXCE 



OF BANKING.— THE PATTERN CASHIER. 



NOTABILIA OF FORGERIES.- CURIOSITIES OF BANK NOTES, &c. 



BY A HANDMAID 



THE OLD LADY OF THREADNEEDLE STREET. 





LONDON .—JAMES HOGG, 22, EXETER STREET, STRAND. 



