Scarce American banking report authored by James A. Garfield, who was chairman of the Committee on Banking and Currency at the time (later the twentieth U.S. President, but assassinated only four months into his term). House of Representatives, 41st Congress, second session, Report No. 31. Gift inscription to James A. Buchanan from Hon. Stevenson Archer, who was a Maryland Representative. Bookplate of Henry LeRoy Finch.