The life of Abraham Newland, Esq. Late principal cashier at the Bank of England; with some account of that great national establishment. To which is added an appendix, containing the late correspondence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer [...]

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Full title: The life of Abraham Newland, Esq. Late principal cashier at the Bank of England; with some account of that great national establishment. To which is added an appendix, containing the late correspondence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer with the Bank, and a list of the statutes Passed relative to it, from the time of its incorporation. 8vo. pp. viii, 172, f. [1] (plates). Signatures: A⁴ B-H¹² I². Original printed boards with date 1812. Contains frontispiece portrait of Abraham Newland and illustrations. Instantly written biography of Abraham Newland, the legendary cashier of the Bank of England who had died on 21 November 1807, by John Dyer Collier, father of John Payne Collier. According to Collier Junior, his father wrote the book without doing any proper research but masking his lack of effort in his preface. See A. & J. Freeman, John Payne Collier. Scholarship and Forgery in the Nineteenth Century. New Haven, 2004, I, pp. 18-19. <a href="https://catalyst.library.jhu.edu/catalog/bib_4117315" rel="ugc nofollow">Click here to view the Johns Hopkins University catalog record.</a>

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The life of Abraham Newland, Esq. Late principal cashier at the Bank of England; with some account of that great national establishment. To which is added an appendix, containing the late correspondence of the Chancellor of the Exchequer [...]
John D. (John Dyer)] [Collier | Printed for B. Crosby and Co. … | 1808
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