The Rise of the House of Rothschild. [AND] The Reign of the House of Rothschild.

CORTI, Count [Rothschild].

$475.00

Item Number: 147334

London: Victor Gollancz, 1928.

Finely bound pair of historical accounts on one of the most powerful families of the 19th century. Octavo, 2 volumes, bound in full morocco by Chas J. Sawyer and Truslove and Hanson with gilt titles and ruling to the spine in six compartments within gilt raised bands, gilt ruling to the front and rear panels with an ‘A’ in gilt roundel to the front panel of the second volume, gilt turn-ins and inner dentelles, top edge gilt, frontispiece to each volume, illustrated with several black and white plates and a folding copy of the Genealogy of the Members of the Rothschild Family Mentioned in the Book. In very good condition, bookplate to the front pastedown of each volume. Translated from the German by Brian and Beatrix Lunn.

Ever since the Rothschild's spectacular rise to preeminence in European finance during the last, turbulent years of the Napoleonic wars, a mythology has grown up around the family and it's firms. It is no exaggeration to say that the Rothschilds became 1 of the living legends of the 19th century: the personification of a new era in which money determined status and power, an era in which 5 Jewish brothers born into the wretchedness of the Frankfurt Ghetto could rise by their own ingenuity to become ' the worlds bankers' - dominating the international financial markets, rubbing shoulders with the social elite, patronizing the great artists and architects of the era and above all exerting a decisive, if veiled, influence over the world's monarchs and statesmen.