Neu, Irene D. Erastus Corning: Merchant and Financier, 1794-1872. Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1960. First Edition. [10062]
Blue cloth, 9 x 6 inches, xii, 212 pp. Book has former owner's signature on ffep, rest clean. Dust jacket worn with edge-chips, stained, tape repairs; DJ is now in a clear wrapper. Very good in fair dust-jacket. Hardcover.
"An exceptionally fine monograph on the career of an important nineteenth-century businessman. What emerges is the story of a man who promoted many enterprises that often stimulated or accelerated economic development, and with profit to himself. Neu's book fills an important chapter in the economic and entrepreneurial history of the United States from Jackson through Lincoln." - New York Historical Society Quarterly.
"Here also is a unique account of the activities of a state bank in the 1830's, both interesting and important because it was one of the 'wave of state bank incorporations' that attended Jackson's attack on the Bank of the United States." - publisher.