Private Telegraphic Code by Henry Clews (2 results)

Private Telegraphic Code of Henry Clews & Co Author: Henry Clews & Co. Publisher: Henry Clews & Co., New York For March 1891 and August 1900 Binding: Burgundy leather binding with gilt titling Condition: Mint Description: A beautiful example of the Private Cipher Code of Henry Clews & Co., issued for use by the prominent Wall Street banking and brokerage firm during the period 1891-1900. Bound in burgundy leather with bright gilt titling, the volume remains in exceptional, mint condition. Cipher code books such as this were produced for internal communication within financial houses and allowed complex financial instructions and market information to be transmitted securely and efficiently by telegraph. Because they were working tools of the firm and not widely distributed, surviving copies are scarce?particularly in this outstanding condition. An attractive and historically significant piece of late 19th-century American financial history, ideal for collectors of banking, Wall Street, telegraphy, and cipher or code books. Condition: Mint condition. Burgundy leather binding is clean and bright with sharp gilt lettering. Pages are fresh and well preserved. An exceptional copy. Size: Octavo (approx. 6 x 9 inches).

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. stock23 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.