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Hardcover. Condición: Very Good. Twenty-ninth edition. Hardcover, full red cloth binding without lettering, 6-1/2" tall, 157 pp., frontispiece. Moderate turning-in to corners and spine ends, moderate darkening toward edges of covers, tear to frontis tissue guard, generally a nice copy with signs of use. Tipped in is a promotional slip typed in red ink, reading in part: "It is distinctly readable and well arranged; and, although it is really an advertisement of the Company by which it is issued, we think it will be found to be quite reliable as a handbook to the customs and usages of that marvellous clearing-house, the London Stock Exchange." from The Accountant, Oct 28, 1893. The book itself is undated, but the "Table of Railway Dividends Paid During the Last Six Years" (p. 111) ends in 1895.

Twentieth Edition. Small 8vo. 138 pp. Original red cloth, gilt title within black frame to front cover (endpapers browned, early ownership inscription to front free endpaper crudely crossed out, contents otherwise generally unmarked; spine slightly faded, small area of faint staining to front cover, a very good copy.). London, [Printed by Jas. Truscott & Son], "Published at 49, Queen Victoria Street", n.d. [but circa An introductory guide to the stock exchange issued by The Universal Stock Exchange, Limited, a London brokerage firm.  "It contains much original information, not to be found elsewhere, on Stock Exchange usages; with elaborate tables of the highest and lowest prices in recent years. All the information is brought down to date, so as to be both available and reliable. Many practical hints are given on how profits are made, how orders should be sent, the modest of transfer, and the different systems of dealing in vogue. The entire work is written from a practical point of view, and is the result of much study and long, varied, and successful experience. It has evoked much appreciation from all who have studied its pages, and who have acted upon the advice which it contains. The work is free from technicality and ambiguity" (Aubrey, Stock Exchange Investments, pp. 106-7).