The Stock Exchange Year-Book started in 1875 and quickly grew in size and stature, eclipsing rival publications. Its readers acknowledged it as an essential reference source for tracking the growth and the development of individual companies, international markets and the economy as a whole. Today it is acknowledged as a basic reference source for economic and business historians, but one for which most libraries only hold scattered issues. Even where volumes are held these are often in a poor state of repair due to the fragility of the paper and bindings and the heavy usage of such unwieldy volumes over time. We can now offer a complete 70 year run of the Year-Book from 1875 to 1945, tracing the development of British Commonwealth and World finance and industry from the heights of the Victorian era to the end of the Second World War.
Every issue is packed with detail and is extensively indexed.
They are large volumes . The volume then proceeds with an index to c1400 companies featured ranging from Aberdeen Jute through Baltic Iron Ship Building, Direct United States Cable, Lady Well Mining and Scottish Widows' Fund and Life to the Zealand Railway. For each company the volume gives lists Of Directors, dates of establishments, capital value and the amount paid up or subscribed, details of trading, dividends and dates of meetings. Subsequent volumes follow the same general format, but new categories are included and the list of companies covered expands dramatically. By 1886 there are close to 3,400 companies listed.