Every man his own broker: or, A guide to exchange-alley. In which the nature of the several funds, vulgarly called the stocks, is clearly explained. And the mystery and iniquity of stock jobbing laid before the public in a new and impartial light. Also the method of transferring stock, and of buying and selling the several government securities, without the assistance of a broker, is made intelligible to the meanest capacity; and an account is given of the laws in force relative to brokers, clerks at the bank, &c. To which is added, new tables of interest on India bonds. Calculated at per cent. --Directions how to avoid the losses that are frequently sustained by the destruction of bank notes, India bonds, &c. by fires and other accidents; and an appendix, giving some account of banking, and of the sinking fund---with a copper-plate table, showing the instinsic value of the several funds, and the proportion they bear to each other, by which any person may immediately know which is the cheap

People / Organizations

• Thomas Mortimer (Author)

Imprint

London : Printed for S. Hooper, at Caesar's Head, the corner of the New Church in the Strand, 1761.

Publication year

1761

ESTC No.

T87414

Grub Street ID

307461

Description

xxviii,174,[2]p.,plate ; 12°.

Note

With a final leaf of advertisements.