House in the City. A study of the City and of the Stock Exchange based on the records of Foster & Braithwaite, 1825-1975
Details:
- Author(s) Reader, William J
- Publication type Monograph
- Year published 1979
- Pages 198pp; illus
- Publisher Batsford
- Place Published London
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- Name British Library
- City London
- County Greater London
- Country England
- Postcode NW1 2DB
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Scholarly history with much about the general context of security dealing and issuance. No financial data. Schedule of partners. Much about railway finance and company flotation. Includes family trees of Foster, Lloyd and Braithwaite families. Has chapters: 'The prime mover'; 'The Stock Exchange and the economy about 1825'; 'Quakers in partnership - the foundation of Foster Braithwaite'; 'The patriarch, 1830-1880 - the Stock Exchange in Victorian Britain'; 'Company promotion'; 'The anxious years, 1908-22'; 'The market and the firm between the wars'; 'The rise of the cult of equity, 1939-71