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1819. London: [Printed by A.J. Valpy], 1819.. London: [Printed by A.J. Valpy], 1819. "Throwing Trade into Confusion, and Tradesmen into Danger" [Bankruptcy]. [Great Britain]. Observations on Credit, With Relation to the Provisions of the Bankrupt Law and Insolvent Debtors' Acts. [From the Pamphleteer Vol. XIII.] London: [Printed by A.J. Valpy], 1819. [359]-367 pp. Octavo (8-1/4" x 5-1/4"). Disbound pamphlet. Light toning, ink library stamp to verso of title page, text block separated between pp. 362-363. $250. * Only edition. Bankruptcy reform was a major economic and political issue in eighteenth and nineteenth-century Britain. This essay, published in the Pamphleteer and not printed separately, argues against the liberalization of bankruptcy laws on both economic and moral grounds: "There is much greater chance of preventing mal principle by punishing offenders, than by the unjust and much severer punishment of compelling every man in business to become a commissioner of bankrupt in his own defense" (366). OCLC locates 7 copies, 3 in North America (University of Chicago, University of Illinois, University of Pennsylvania).