VMs: Unicode...

[Nick Pelling <nickpelling@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Hi everyone,

At 19:07 04/08/2004 -0500, Jim Reeds wrote:
> About
>
> > >"Telegraphic address: Sessa, London. Code: Unicode".
>
> "Unicode" was a telegraphic code book
>
> Year:   1897
> 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.
>
> Year:   1889
> Ed:     6th
> Pub:    London  Cassell \& company limited
> Desc:   v, [1] p., 2 L., 110 p. 21 1/2cm.
> Loc:    U Michigan

The British Library has two Unicode books with lists of firms, one from 
1886 and the other from 1900. Perhaps by looking for "Sessa" in various 
editions, we may be able to "binary chop" the date when Voynich and Edgell 
began trading... just a thought.

        Title:  "Unicode." The universal telegraphic phrase-book ... With 
list of
                ... firms who are Unicode users.
        Main heading:  UNICODE
        Publication details:  pp. xxiii. 344. Cassell & Co.: London, 1886. 
obl. 8o.
        Shelfmark:  8756.a.8.

        Title:  "Unicode," etc. (Revised.)
        Main heading:  UNICODE
        Publication details:  pp. xxiii. 358. Cassell & Co.: London, 1900. 
obl. 16o.
        Shelfmark:  8758.a.30.

BTW, a BL subject search for "telegraphic" yields 334 good quality hits on 
code books, with specialised ones for chess moves, fingerprints, shorthand, 
"universal telegraphic communication; in which a plan is laid down for 
reciprocal intercourse between the different nations of the world", etc. 
Heaven only knows how many more code books are in the BL but slightly 
mislabelled. :-o

Cheers, .....Nick Pelling..... 


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