Investment Guide.

£250 · Offered by Shapero Rare Books

The third issue of this annual pocket guide to investment opportunities in the United States, with lists of railroad and industrial bonds, stock options, ephemeral data including population estimates, and bank clearances for the year 1899. Staffordshire-born Henry Clews (1834-1923) emigrated to the United States in 1853, later establishing the eponymous investment firm which comprised a 'general banking business and the execution of orders on the New-York Stock Exchange, New-York Produce Exchange, New-York Petroleum Exchange, and the Chicago Board of Trade' (New York Times, January 1st, 1886). OCLC records just one copy of the 1899 issue held by the New York Historical Society Library. Investment annual, third issue; 12mo (13.5 x 10 cm); frontispiece, minor tear to fore-margin not affecting text from p.69 onwards; black wrappers, stamped in gilt to upper cover, stapled; [2], 109, [1]pp.

• Binding: Hardcover

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