Bi - metallic money. A paper read before the Society for the Reform and codification of the law of Nations, on the 15th August, 1879

In-8°, pp. 39, brossura editoriale. Un diagramma ripiegato in fine disegnato da Joseph Spencer raffigurante la produzione mondiale di oro e di argento e il prezzo per oncia dal 1801 al 1878. Fioriture alla brossura. Seconda edizione. L'autore (Roberton, Borgue, Kirkcudbrightshire, 1836-Liverpool, 1906), uomo politico, economista e filantropo, era l'ex Presidente della Camera di Commercio di Liverpool. Cfr. Gerald le Grys Norgate in Dictionary of National Biography, 1912 Supplement, passim: 'Gradually adopting bimetallic views, on which he gave addresses in many parts of the country, he several times raised the question in parliament. On 18 April 1890 he initiated a parliamentary debate in which Mr. Balfour, Sir Edward Clarke, and Sir Richard Webster supported, and Sir W. Harcourt and Mr. W. H. Smith opposed his resolution (which was lost by 183 to 87). Smith contributed 'Three Letters on the Silver Question' to H. Cernuschi's 'Nomisma' (1877), and published 'The Bimetallic Question' (1887).'. Non in Einaudi.