History of the New York Stock Exchange.

HEMMING, Henry G.

$2,500.00

Item Number: 132283

New York: Henry Glover & Co, 1905.

First edition of this classic work. Thick quarto, bound in full morocco, gilt titles and tooling to the spine, raised bands, gilt topstain, marbled endpapers, illustrated with an engraved frontispiece, four views, and 353 steel-engraved portraits of financiers such as Henry Clews, George Jay Gould, J.P. Morgan, Jr., W.C. Kellogg, Arthur Whitney, and many others.  In near fine condition.

A longtime classic work on the Stock Exchange, Hemming's impressive work contains a 45-page history of the New York Stock Exchange, which chronicles the Exchange's founding, its relationship to the banks, its prominent members, and its place in the global economy.