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The Stock Exchange in the Year 1900. A Souvenir.
Worshipping the market
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First edition, one of 300 extra-illustrated "Édition De Luxe" copies, in a sumptuous binding with 93 added plates showing famous exchange members.
Long before Joseph Stiglitz identified the widespread near-religious faith in the power of the market, this deluxe edition was directly advertised as being bound "in the best approved family-Bible style" (The Pall Mall Gazette, 18 April 1900).
The splendid illustrations by Joseph Pennell and Dudley Hardy were commissioned for this work, which concludes with 131 portrait plates depicting the trustees, managers, and members of the Stock Exchange's general purposes committee.
Joseph Pennell (1857-1926), a friend of Whistler and Sargeant, established himself as a leading etcher of landscape and architectural prints. Dudley Hardy (1867-1922) remains known for his influence on English poster design, with his best-known being Gaiety Girl (1893).
This attractive volume includes the "History of the Stock Exchange" by Charles Duguid, then City editor of the Westminster Gazette, and includes discussions on the sporting endeavours of the Exchange's members, its benevolent fund, and the orchestral society which it established in 1883.
Description
Quarto. With 156 plates, including views of the Stock Exchange by Pennell and Hardy, many with facing captions and tissue guards. Tables, diagrams, and illustrations in the text.
Original black morocco, spine lettered, ruled, and decorated in gilt, covers decorated in gilt and blind and with elaborate brass cornerpieces and clasps, top edge gilt, others uncut, marbled endpapers.
Light wear, front joint starting at foot but holding firm, contents generally crisp: a very good copy.
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Worshipping the market
First edition, one of 300 extra-illustrated "Édition De Luxe" copies, in a sumptuous binding with 93 added plates showing famous exchange members.Long before Joseph Stiglitz identified the widespread near-religious faith in the power of the market, this deluxe edition was directly advertised as being bound "in the best approved family-Bible style" (The Pall Mall Gazette, 18 April 1900).
The splendid illustrations by Joseph Pennell and Dudley Hardy were commissioned for this work, which concludes with 131 portrait plates depicting the trustees, managers, and members of the Stock Exchange's general purposes committee.
Joseph Pennell (1857-1926), a friend of Whistler and Sargeant, established himself as a leading etcher of landscape and architectural prints. Dudley Hardy (1867-1922) remains known for his influence on English poster design, with his best-known being Gaiety Girl (1893).
This attractive volume includes the "History of the Stock Exchange" by Charles Duguid, then City editor of the Westminster Gazette, and includes discussions on the sporting endeavours of the Exchange's members, its benevolent fund, and the orchestral society which it established in 1883.
Description
Quarto. With 156 plates, including views of the Stock Exchange by Pennell and Hardy, many with facing captions and tissue guards. Tables, diagrams, and illustrations in the text.
Illustrations
Original black morocco, spine lettered, ruled, and decorated in gilt, covers decorated in gilt and blind and with elaborate brass cornerpieces and clasps, top edge gilt, others uncut, marbled endpapers.
Condition
Light wear, front joint starting at foot but holding firm, contents generally crisp: a very good copy.
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