Private Telegraphic Code of Henry Clews & Co.

£450 · Offered by Shapero Rare Books

The private telegraphic cipher of the banking house of financier and Wall Street memoirist Henry Clews (1834-1923). Private codes such as these were designed to facilitate accurate trading via telegraph in the pre-internet age, providing a standardised list of key words to take the place of phrases and figures. We can trace no other copy of the fourth issue worldwide, with OCLC listing only one copy the 1900 issue at Harvard University. Fourth issue; 12mo (14 x 10 cm); front pastedown detached from endpapers, toned; purple morocco tooled in blind, upper panel gilt stamped, minor dampstaining to endpapers and prelims; 76, [2]pp.

• Binding: Hardcover

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