'The Bubbler's Bubbl'd or The Devil Take the Hindmost', 1720. Shares in the South Sea Company rose through overheated speculation causing the South Sea Bubble, when the share price collapsed after reaching a peak in September 1720. Illustration from Social Caricature in the Eighteenth Century ... With over two hundred illustrations by George Paston [pseudonym of Emily Morse Symonds], (London, 1905).
History & Politics Politics Political Events South Sea Bubble (1711-1720)
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