With an Introduction by Sir Walter Layton. First edition. 8vo. 228, [2], 28 [publisher’s advertisements] pp., folding letterpress table on blue paper. Original red cloth, spine and front cover lettered in gilt, dust jacket (Japanese bookseller’s label to front pastedown, partial offsetting to endpapers; jacket slightly worn with some minor chipping and creasing to extremities, spine panel darkened, notwithstanding an excellent copy). London, Sir Isaac, 1932.
Hargreaves Parkinson (1896-1950) is credited with devising the FT index in July 1935, with thirty of the most active stocks. He wrote the Lex column and became editor of The Financial Times.
