British Government. THREE HOUSE OF COMMONS REPORTS ON TECHNOLOGICAL APPROACHES TO PREVENTING BANK NOTE FORGERY.Includes: Report from the Committee on Mr. Bradburys Petition Relative to Machinery for Engraving and Etching, Submission of Mr. Bradburys Engraving Machine to Prevent Forgeries (1818), 2 pages; Report of the Commissioners Appointed for Inquiring into the Mode of Preventing the Forgery of Bank Notes (Jan. 2, 1819), 6 pages; and Final Report of the Commissioners Appointed for Inquiring into the Mode of Preventing the Forgery of Bank Notes (February 1820), 2 pages. All folios, removed from previous bindings. Very good. Three governmental reports from a period of great activity in Britain in the field of counterfeit prevention technology.From the Heather Hardin-Hudson Collection