Potter, Elisha R.; Rider, Sidney S. Some Account of the Bills of Credit or Paper Money of Rhode Island from the First issue in 1710, to the Final Issue, 1786 (Rhode Island Historical Tracts, No. 8); With Twenty Illustrations. Providence: Sidney S. Rider, 1880. First Edition. [11341]
Original printed blue wrappers, some edge-wear, chipping with loss at the spine ends, name erased from the top of the front wrapper, 8 1/4 x 6 1/2 inches. xii, 229 pages; includes index, illustrations. Complete, intact; fragile, scarce. Fair. Paperback.
Limited to 250 copies.
A descriptive study of the colonial paper money of the colony of Rhode Island.
"The essay which forms the basis of this Tract was written by Elisha R. Potter, and printed in this city in the year 1837, under the title, 'A Brief Account of Emissions of Paper Money made by the Colony of Rhode Island.'" - Publisher's Preface.
Sidney Smith Rider (1833-1917), b. Brainards' Bridge, New York; d. Providence, Rhode Island. As a lad of 12 years of age he moved with his family to Rhode Island, where he was apprenticed to Charles Burnett, a Providence bookseller. He took an avid interest in Rhode Island history, and was eventually able to acquire Burnett's bookshop. Rider assembled the largest private collection of materials related to the history of Rhode Island, which was purchased for the Brown University Library in 1903. He published several serials on book collecting and Rhode Island History, including The Bibliomaniac, Book Notes, The Literary News, and Rhode Island Historical Tracts.
