1887-1891 Chamberlain of London in Account with the Corporation of London, in Respect of the City's Estate

Description

First Edition, Folding Plates, Leather Binding, Publishers' Original Binding, Very Scarce

Two very scarce first edition works, offering accounts of the finances of the City of London in the years 1886 and 1890.

These volumes record the Corporation's revenues from properties, rents, and investments, and set out allocations to civic services, public works, and charitable or trust funds administered through the Chamber of London.

The 1886 volume features two folding charts, with a further two folding charts to the 1890 volume. Collated, complete.

Presented in a systematic accounting format, these volumes illustrate how municipal resources were managed in the late nineteenth century.