Bagehot W. Lombard Street: A Description of the Money Market

Kecan Paul, Trench, Trubner & Co. Ltd., 1896. — 362 p.The book was one of the first writers to describe and explain the world of international and corporate finance, banking, and money in understandable language. The book was in part a reaction to the financial collapse of Overend, Gurney and Company, a wholesale discount bank located at 65 Lombard Street, London, from which the book draws its title. When this bank suspended payments on 10 May 1866, panic spread across London, Liverpool, Manchester, Norwich, Derby and Bristol.