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(FINANCE.) Clarke, Matthew St. Clair; and David A. Hall. Legislative and Documentary History of the Bank of the United States. 8vo, contemporary marbled calf, moderate wear; minor foxing; signed by Daniel Webster on flyleaf, with his bookplate on the front pastedown. (TFC) Washington, 1832
Webster was a leading advocate for the bank, and is discussed frequently in the text. This is likely one of the 60 copies ordered by Congress in 1823, "one for each member of the Senate, one for the Vice President, one for the Secretary of the Senate--the balance for the Senate Library" (see Ostrowski, Books, Maps, and Politics: A History of the Library of Congress, page 112). Sabin 13438.
