History of the Atlantic Telegraph
New York: Charles Scribner & Co., 1866. first edition. Hardbound. Green publishers cloth. viii, 364 pp. + 3 pages listing the officers and other information for the 4 major telegraph companies of the day, followed by 5 pp. ads. Tissue-guarded frontis and one other illustration. VG, clean and tight with fresh looking sheets. Item #134931
Henry Field was the younger brother of Cyrus W.Field whose vision and perseverance saw the laying of the first Atlantic cable through to success. Henry thus had an intimate, first-hand knowledge of his brother's struggle to achieve this extraordinary task and his book is the first devoted to Cyrus' role. It takes the story down to the third attempt to lay the cable and is an extraordinarily detailed account. As such, it is a major source of information on the cable. This is the first edition, which was printed for private distribution only and is consequently scarce.
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