New York: Henry Glover & Co., 1905. Thick quarto. 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. Full modern brown morocco over beveled boards, spine with raised bands, top edge gilt, other edges trimmed.

Scarce early history of the New York Stock Exchange. 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.