Auction: 326 - The Numismatic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 1450
Wright, Elizur. Savings Bank Life Insurance. "With illustrative tables analyzing the premiums of 268 policies, showing the insurance, self-insurance and surrender value of each for every policy years, by the actuaries' rate of mortality at 4%". Boston: Wright & Potter, printers. 1872. Folio. 14" x 19.5". 30, 181pp, 2 engraved plates. Original publisher's one quarter calf with marbled sides. Printed paper label on glazed stock with gilt title on the front cover, as issued. Minor rubbing, light wear on the edges, but a very good copy. Rare in the original binding. First and only edition. Important, because Elizur Wright probably had more to do with the development of sound standards in the life insurance industry than any other man in its history. From the Collection of John Herzog.
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