PAWNBROKING: An Aspect of British Society History.
Pp. 170(last blank), 16 plates, notes, appendices, list of books and articles relating to pawnbroking, index; demy 8vo; red boards, spine lettered in gilt, faint bruise to bottom edge of upper board; dust wrapper, slightly soiled, edges a trifle rubbed; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, the free endpapers faintly offset, edges of leaves lightly foxed; The Bodley Head, London, 1982. First edition. *Charts the early history of pawnbroking, when kings pledged their jewels to pay for their wars, to the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when pawnbrokers dealt not only in jewellery and things of value, but more and more with small pledges, often redeemed at the week's end, of clothing and bedding and domestic articles of all kinds' [wrapper blurb]. Item #182145
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