Gold: The Real Ruler of the World (Signed Limited Edition)

First Limited Deluxe Edition. Number 790 of 1,000 copies. Signed by Hobbs on the tipped in colophon leaf. Near fine in original cloth-backed, brown textured boards, metallic gold spine wrap w/black stamped titles, gilt stamped. Very good unprinted dust jacket, with several small chips. Pages fine. A groundbreaking work of economics by Franklyn Hobbs, whose ancestor was Thomas Hobbes, "my illustrious and much maligned ancestor who gave the World The Leviathan," and whom this book is dedicated to the memory of. Chapters include:  the supply of gold; debate about gold; gold as a stabilizer; gold as an asset; credit function of gold; as a money guarantee; theory of gold; gold money or gold standard; in the Pharaonic and Biblical ages; as a token of value; in the arts; versus silver; who owns the gold?; buying and danger in owning gold; statesmen and economists look at gold; idle gold and gold not idle; spending gold and price of gold; inflation w/gold; hoarding and building prosperity w/gold no novelty; the keeper of gold and gold rules the world. Octavo. 16 x 23.5 cm. 265 pp. A wonderful copy of this seminal work.