The pleasant art of money-catching:. treating, I. Of the original and invention of money. II. Of the misery of wanting it, &c. III. How persons in straits for money, may supply themselves with it. IV. A new method for ordering of expences. V. How to save money in diet, apparel, and recreations. VI. How a man may always keep money in his pocket. VII. How a man may pay debts without money. VIII. How to travel without money. To which is added, The way how to turn a penny: or, The Art of Thriving. With several other things, both pleasant and profitable..
Montgomery, Alexander, of Glasgow
Category
Books
Date
1714
Materials
Place of origin
London
Collection
Treasurer's House, North Yorkshire
NT 3258047
Summary
Bibliographic description
The third edition, corrected and much enlarged. 166, [2] p. : ill. ; 15 cm. (12mo). One of the books given to Wakefield Museum by Frank Green (1861-1954) in 1928; reacquired by the National Trust in 2024. Provenance: ownership inscription in ink on recto of lower end-paper: "Joseph Spink his Book. Anno domeny [sic] 1731". Ink inscription at head of A3: "Willm. Marshall No. 40". Binding: eighteenth-century sheepskin; "No. 40" in ink on paper label affixed to spine.
Makers and roles
Montgomery, Alexander, of Glasgow