An essay on the coins of Cunobelin: in an epistle to the Right Reverend the Bishop of Carlisle, President of the Society of Antiquaries; wherein this noble set of coins is classed and appropriated to our British king [etc.]
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Knight Collection
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Publication Year
1766
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An essay on the coins of Cunobelin: in an epistle to the Right Reverend the Bishop of Carlisle, President of the Society of Antiquaries; wherein this noble set of coins is classed and appropriated to our British king upon rational grounds; the opinions of the antiquaries on the word tascia are examined and refuted, and a more probable one proposed; the coins are illustrated in a short commentary; and the various uses that may be made of them, in elucidating the antiquities of this island and many passages of the classics, are briefly pointed out. Two plates are prefixed, wherein all the coins are collected together in their respective classes / by Samuel Pegge.
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(CON) The verso of p. 135 bears the note: "Of this book two hundred copies only are printed, by subscription, at five shillings each. To do justice to the patrons of it, none will be sold, after the 25th of March, but at an advanced price.".||(PUB) Printed by Bowyer; his records show delivery of only 75 copies in all, over the course of five years.||(REF) See estc.bl.uk.||(TIT) Pegge's Cunobelin (spine title).||(CIP) Published 1766.||(PRV) Conatins the bookplate of Montague Knight (1844-1914), and the shelfmark K.2.12 from the Chawton catalogue 1908.||(BIN) Bound in mottled tan calf with gilt decoration on around the edge of the boards, also, with gilt lettering, on the spine.
Biblio Notes
[iv], 135, [1] p. : ill. ; 4to.
Number of Copies
1