The jacket's protective cover was too tight and left on for too long, causing creasing to the jacket, which also has a handwritten Dewey number on the spine. Apart form a discreet circular library stamp, which appears intermittently and rarely throughout the book, and always on the blank part of the tail, the body of the book is clean and solid. The half title page may or may not be missing. xiv, 459 pages, indexed and illustrated. Overseas customers please note the book is heavy and will attract additional postage." History of the ANZ, from origins in Bank of Australasia and Union Bank of Australia, the earliest banks in the colonies of Australia and New Zealand, including years of consolidation 1838-1841, the slump of the forties, the first Bank in New Zealand, years of the boom 1860-1875. government intrusion, the twentieth century." (Trove) "This book does more than trace the history of two banks - the Bank of Australasia and the Union Bank of Australia - which in 1951 merged as Australia and the New Zealand Bank Limited. It tells the story of banking in Australia and New Zealand from the early days of colonial settlements right through to the present time. It sets that story in the general economic development of the two countries which those Banks primarily served. The book has been written for a wider audience than the ordinary history book: the reader will find much of interest and, in particular, considerable care has been spent to ensure that illustrations show the changing life of Australia and New Zealand from the early nineteenth century to the present day." (front flap)