THE COINAGE OF THE BRITISH EMPIRE: AN OUTLINE OF THE PROGRESS OF THE COINAGE IN GREAT BRITAIN AND HER DEPENDENCIES. by Humphreys, Henry Noel - 1855

Kessinger Publishing, LLC, 2009-12-07. Paperback. Good.

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London: Richard Griffin and Company, 1861. New Edition Greatly Enlarged. Hardcover. Very good. 207p octavo illustrated in black and white plus 12 colored plates. Rebacked with new endpapers. A very good copy in brown cloth wearing along the edges but lacks the frontispiece.

London,: Richard Griffin and Company,, 1861. Hardcover Hardcover. Very Good. Bound in later quarter cloth over marbled boards, with new endpapers. Slight wear, slight spotting to first and last few pages with faint water-marking in margins, otherwise a good-plus copy. 24 plates, 12 in colour. Enlarged edition.

Richard Griffin and Company, 1861. Hardcover. Good. Hardcover rebound shows moderate cover wear. Text is unmarked. Ships FAST!

London: Nathaniel Cooke, 1854., 1854. 8vo. pp. 160. 24 lithographed plates (incl. 12 chromolithographs of coins in gold, silver & copper). 1 text illus. later half calf (rubbed, plates offset). armorial bookplate of Lord Avebury. First Edition. Masui 228 (incorrect collation).. 1st Edition.

London: David Bogue, Fleet Street, 1855 .. First edition. Original publisher's papier mache binding, each cover a pierced and moulded black relief plaque of a coin with the British coat-of-arms with thistle, rose, shamrock and acorn corner ornaments, set over dark pink boards. Front board carefully repaired. Spine professionally restored, preserving the original spine with gilt title: "Coinage Of The British Empire". All page edges gilt. Original marbled endpapers, inner hinges carefully repaired. Library stamp to verso of title-page: "Gloucestershire College Of Art - Cheltenham". Rear endpaper with neat handwritten notes regarding specific coins. 8vo. 10" x 7" x 1.5" , pp.160, illustrated with 23 full-page plates, 12 of them chromolithographs heightened with silver and gold (all with offsetting to facing page). VG. ** Referenced by McLean Victorian Book Design, p. 112 and plate 213 for the plaque - "...supreme example of Victorian Gothic."

London: David Bogue, 1855. [Numismatics] PAPIER MACHÉ BINDING, the second edition. Large octavo (26 x 18cm), pp.160. With 12 plates done in gold, silver and copper, including a frontispiece, and 11 supplemental plates at rear. Recently rebound in tough black buckram with gilt titles to spine, and the original black papier maché boards laid over, showing the Royal Arms of Edward III and the motto from his gold Noble. All edges gilt, marbled endpapers. Leaves facing coloured plates very heavily browned, as might be expected. Both boards with a single horizontal crack right across the middle, and also with some chips from the edges. Very good.