Law, GeorgeBiblio.com
LAW, John - WOOD, John PhilipBiblio.com
A Sketch of the Life and Projects of John Law of Lauriston Comptroller General of the Finances in France.
1791173742Edinburgh: for Peter Haill and George Kearsley London 1791. The first biography of the economic pioneer First edition of the first biography of Law whose financial schemes of an expanded paper money supply brought economic ruin to France yet paved the way for the modern credit economy. The biographer John Philip Wood was a local historian of Cramond where Law was born. He had "access to certain materials which are not now available" and "included a number of interesting genealogical and personal details in his book" though he "made no attempt to examine the 'system' objectively or even to analyse his subject's character in the light of his career" Hyde pp. 36 216. Both Antoin Murphy and James Buchan cite Wood's work in their scholarly biographies of Law although part of Wood's account of Law's genealogy is challenged by Murphy. The work was republished in an expanded edition in 1824. Quarto pp. 4 ii 48. Original stab-sewn blue wrappers edges uncut. Housed in 20th-century clamshell portfolio backed with earlier marbled paper. Rear wrapper detached a little chipped and torn at extremities light spotting and patch of toning to title page else contents fresh: a very good copy. ESTC T8458; Goldsmiths' 14941; Kress B2240. H. Montgomery Hyde John Law 1969. unknown
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