The Years Before the Stock Exchange

Nicholas Lane examines how, during the century before the London Stock Exchange acquired a building of its own in 1773, brokers met and transacted business in the coffee houses of Exchange Alley

Joint Stock Street, March 10, 1808, Thomas Rowlandson. Metropolitan Museum of Art.

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