Economics.- Sharp (Granville) The Gilbart Prize Essay, third English edition, 2 engraved portraits, numerous specimens of banking ephemera including leaflets, cheques, watermarks, banknotes, trade advertisements for locks, safes etc., some folding, some printed on coloured paper, 15 red wax seals mounted on lower paste-down, the odd spot or finger soil, bookplate and ink ownership inscription, contemporary half morocco, rubbed, 1854 § Ashton (John) A History of English Lotteries. Now for the first time written, with facsimile lottery ephemera, light browning, original paper labels to front pastedown, modern half morocco, edges uncut, 1893, 8vo (2)

⁂ The first mentioned was written in response to a competition organised by James William Gilbart of the London and Westminster Bank, offering a prize (£100) for the best paper on the practical application to banking of the inventions and discoveries presented at the Great Exhibition of 1851. Granville Sharp was the accountant in the East of England Bank in Norwich and his winning essay was first published in 1852, but this is the first edition to include the illustrations and specimens of technical improvements in banking, particularly relating to security and the prevention of bank note forgery.