[Royal Bank of Scotland]. A collection of printed papers, depositions and reports, all Court of Session papers, concerning a major legal dispute between the Royal Bank of Scotland and the Greenock Banking Company, together 9 works in 1 vol., light foxing, first title lightly soiled, the third with slight wear from previous fold and with marginal tear to final leaf, the eighth lacking final leaf (catchword "state"), contemporary half sheep, rubbed, corners worn, rebacked, red morocco label, 4to, [Edinburgh], 1794.

⁂ An apparently very rare complete collection of the Court of Session papers relating to the Royal Bank of Scotland's civil action against the Greenock Banking Company, and vividly illustrating the sometimes far from easy relationships between a new Scottish provincial commercial 'private' bank and the 'national' Royal Bank in the latter years of the 18th century. The Greenock Banking Company, established in 1785, was Greenock's first and only bank until 1802. However, it was never very successful and failed in 1842 when its business was acquired by the Western Bank of Scotland (est. 1832) of Glasgow. The problem that arose in the early 1790s, and culminated in an expensive and protracted hearing in the Edinburgh Court of Session (the Scottish Supreme Court), related to the Royal Bank's arrangements for inter-bank accounting and once or twice weekly note exchange with the Greenock Banking Company, otherwise known as Dunlop, Houston, Gammill and Company, Bankers in Greenock.

All the papers in this collection are rare, with only one copy of each recorded in ESTC (BL). A complete list of the contents is available on application.