Ten Years in Wall Street by William Worthington Fowler - 1870: Revelations of Inside Life and Experience on 'Change

Nice condition copy of "Ten Years In Wall Street" - or, Revelations of Inside Life and Experience on 'Change by William Worthington Fowler. 1870 1st edition; Worthington, Dustin & Co.; Hartford, CT. The book features full-page illustrated plates by Arthur Lumley. "Including the histories, mysteries, and men of the 'Street' - The Stock Exchange - The Gold Room - The speculations in stocks, gold, governments, pork, petroleum, grain, etc. - Sketches from life of the noted speculators and money kings, with anecdotes and incidents of their careers - The women who speculate - The great rises and panics, and how they are produced - The personal experiences of the author - The famous pools, rings, cliques, and corners, and how and by whom they were formed - A description of the battles of the giants, and of the great gold ring of 1869, etc."

Here are a few examples of the contents:
* A Speculator's Life
* The Napoleon of the Bears
* Philosophy of Speculation
* A Panic in Stocks
* Training for Wall Street
* Vanderbilt the Bull, and Drew the Bear
* The Cloud Gathers and Bursts
* Stocks on the Rampage
* The Gold Dreamer, and how His Dream Came Out
* The Autobiography of $500
* Vanderbilt in Search of Investments
* The Clown of the Stocks Plays His Antics
* How Bulls are Changed into Bears
* A Tantalizing Stock
* Standing on the Apex of a Fortune
* The Market Trembles, Totters and Falls
* Meeting a Prophet of Evil
* A Black Sunday and a Blue Monday
* Bubble Company Stocks at a Discount

Condition:
Clean front and back covers, light soiling on the spine; sharp corners. Tight binding. No loose pages. No cracks. The text pages are very clean with no notable condition issues found; foxing to the 2 illustrations before the title page, and to the tissue paper between them; the tissue paper has a thin 2" rectangular area at the lower-outer corner that has been clipped. Overall the book is in very good condition.