Realms of Silver: One Hundred Years of Banking in the East

xiv, 334pp. In green cloth covered boards with gilt motif on front panel and gilt titles on spine. Coloured maps on endpapers. 8vo. Boards gently rubbed and rounded on corners and spine tips, a few mild marks on cloth, else neat, clean, fresh, bright and tight throughout. Sir Compton Mackenzie tells the story of a enterprise typical of the mid-Victorian era, and enterprise dedicated to the proposition that commerce is the great civilizer. He describes the difficulties encountered by the founders of the Chartered Bank of India, Australia and China in seeking to establish in the East standards of financial probity and commercial integrity associated with British realms, and goes on to relate how the Bank was able to foster trade and industry