Cryptography or the History, Principles, and Practice of Cipher-Writing

by F. Edward Hulme

Excerpt from Cryptography or the History, Principles, and Practice of Cipher-Writing

And crosses cryptogram — Its construction — Ciphers from agony columns of Standard and Times — Frying.

196 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 1848

About the author

Frederick Edward Hulme

Reviews

[Mia]

Onion juice & ash 4evah!
Grateful, again, to The Public Domain Review for pointing me toward books like this: https://publicdomainreview.org

[David]

The oldest book in my cryptobook collection (at time of typing, my 1st edition copy is 165 years old!). Contains simple ciphers with illustrations, all presented in Victorian diction.