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The idea that land should be—or even could be—treated like any other commodity has not always been a given. For much of British history, land was bought and sold in ways that emphasized its role in complex networks of social obligation and political power, and that resisted comparisons with more easily transacted and abstract markets. Fast-forward to today, when house-flipping is ubiquitous and references to the fluctuating property market fill the news. How did we get here? In Marketable Values, Desmond Fitz-Gibbon seeks to answer that question. He tells the story of how Britons imagined, organized, and debated the buying and selling of land from the mid-eighteenth to the early twentiet...
The goldsmith's handbook : containing full instructions for the alloying and working of gold ; including the art of alloying, melting, reducing, colouring, collecting and refining ; the processes of manipulation, recovery of waste ; chemical and physical properties of gold ; with new system of mixing its alloys ; solders, enamels, and other useful rules and recipes. by George E. Gee. Third edition, considerably enlarged. London : Crosby Lockwood and Co. 1886