IN WHICH The Several Classes of the Public Funds, commonly called the Stocks, are distinctly explained and the Mode of Transferring, or of Buying and Selling them, is rendered intelligible for Persons desirous to transact their own Business. The Mystery and Iniquity of Stock-Jobbing is laid open – with curious Anecdotes of recent Transactions at the Stock-Exchange – The present State of the National Debt, both Principal and Interest, is accuratedly drawn up – A great Variety of new and useful Directions are given, respecting India Stock – Banking – Adventuring in State-Lotteries – Preventing losses by the Destruction of Bank notes, &c, by Fire – Legal Advice and Caution to the Finders of Notes, Bills, and other Paper-Securities for Money – Rules for forming a true Judgment when the Stocks will rise or fall in their Prices – Caution against false Intelligence – A new table of Equation, &c. WITH AN APPENDIX, Containing exact Lists of the Hollidays – Payment of the Dividends – Expences of transacting Business in the Funds – Miscellanious Information and Directions to Strangers to find their Way readily to the different Offices at the Bank, South-Sea, and India-Houses. The FOURTEENTH EDITION, considerably improved. By Thomas Martimer, Esq. Author of many approved Commercial and Historical Works. London, Printed for W. J and J. Richardson, Under the Royal-Exchange. 1807. De 18x11 cm. xxii-[vi]-[table equation]-252-[xiv] pags. Encadernação da época inteira de pele. Tomás Mortimer (1730-1810) publicou este guia pela primeira vez em 1761, sendo depois traduzido para alemão, holandês, francês e italiano. Apareceu no momento em que a Inglaterra atingio a sua posição de apogeu comercial no mundo. A obra, um dos vários trabalhos práticos de Mortimer, teve 13 edições entre 1761 e 1810 (quatro das quais no primeiro ano de publicação. Mortimer foi crítico dos corretores e hostíl à expeculação, admitindo que legalmente só poderiam existir corretores licenciados em e preocupando-se com a troca desnecessária de fundos do Governo. A sua obra dá uma das melhores imagens da corretagem de acções na segunda metade do século XVIII. Goldsmiths, 12333.  Mortimer's popular guide was first published in 1761 and later translated into German, Dutch, French and Italian. It appeared at a time when Great Britain was codifying its position as the most skilled commercial empire in the world. This popular guide to dealing on the stock-market went through some thirteen editions between 1761 and 1810, four of which appeared in its first year of publication. This is one of several practical works that Mortimer (1730-1810), who was British vice-consul to the Austrian Netherlands, wrote on finance and trade. Among the others was the Elements of Commerce, Politics and Finance (1772), which he accused Adam Smith of plagiarising. As his lengthy sub-title title suggests, Mortimer was critical of brokers and hostile toward speculato 'As the title suggests, the author's object was to encourage members of the public to buy and sell for themselves, without employing brokers. His attacks upon the brokers, though often amusing, are obviously exaggerated, but on technical matters he is accurate. Legally, only licensed brokers could deal on behalf of others, but there was nothing to prevent any members of the public from dealing on his own account' (Morgan & Thomas, p. 58). Historian Elizabeth Hennessy outlines the importance of Mortimer's work: 'According to his own account he wrote because of an unhappy experience at Jonathan's in 1756, and the work is certainly hostile to jobbers and speculators like many of his contemporaries he was deeply perturbed by what he saw as unnecessary trading in Government funds. However his detailed advice to the public on how to buy and sell successfully gives one of the best pictures of stock broking in the second half of the eighteenth century.' Goldsmiths' 12333.