Every Man His Own Broker: or, A Guide to the Stock-Exchange ….

London: G.G.J. and J. Robinson, 1791.

Price: $1,250.00


About the item

Eleventh edition, “considerably improved”. Folding table. xxxiv, 263 [1] pp. 8vo. Contemporay tree calf, spine gilt with red morocco lettering piece. Wear to spine ends,hinge neatly repaired, internally fine. Contemporary bookplates of Robert Pick and John Bell and one later bookplate. Kress B.2162.

Item #263308

“… to teach astonished Britons, the amazing art of thrusting their hands into the fire without burning their fingers” (from the author’s preface). Every Man His Own Broker was an enormously popular work, first published in 1761 and in print in numerous editions through 1801. Mortimer was motivated to write the book by his own considerable losses in the market in 1756.