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> >"Telegraphic address: Sessa, London. Code: Unicode".

"Unicode" was a telegraphic code book, either

Year:   1897
Title:  ``Unicode'' : the universal telegraphic phrase-book. A
        code of cypher words for commercial, domestic and
        familiar phrases in ordinary use in inland and
        foreign telegrams. With a list of prominent
        commercial firms who are Unicode users.
Ed:     Second ed. First ed.: 1886.
Pub:    London : Cassell
Desc:   - v,[5],111p ; 22cm.
Loc:    London University, Imperial College
Loc:    U Michigan
Nb:     UM copy 1896, xxiii, 358 p. 7 1/2 x 12 1/2cm.

or

Year:   1889
Title:  ``Unicode''. The universal telegraphic phrase-book. A
        code of cypher words for commercial, domestic, and
        familiar phrases in ordinary use in inland and
        foreign telegrams. With a list of prominent
        commercial firms who are Unicode users...
Ed:     6th
Pub:    London  Cassell \& company limited
Desc:   v, [1] p., 2 L., 110 p. 21 1/2cm.
Loc:    U Michigan


The name "Unicode" was recycled by a 1956 Czech publication:

Entry:  LC:57-16025
Author: Ceskoslovenska obchodni komora
Year:   1956
Title:  Unicode; three-letter difference telgraphic code.
Ed:     1st
Place:  [Prague] .
Desc:   533 p. 222 cm.
CallNo: HE7679 .Z3
Loc:    LC:57-16025
Loc:    NCM

Entry:  NCM22m
Author: Ceskoslovenska obchodni komora
Year:   1956,1961
Title:  Unicode Telegrammschlussel mit drei-Buchstaben-Differenz
Pub:    Verlag die Wirtschaft
Lang:   In German.
Loc:    NCM

Entry:  NCM22l
Author: Ceskoslovenska obchodni komora
Year:   1961
Title:  Unicode telegraficky kod s tripismennou dierenci
Pub:    Kniznice Technika Zahranicniho Obchodu
Lang:   Czech.
Loc:    NCM

before its current use.

See http://www.dtc.umn.edu/~reedsj/codebooks.html for an essay about
the genre.

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