Ancient coins and medals: . an historical sketch of the origin and progress of coining money in Greece and her colonies: its progress with the extension of the Roman Empire; and its decline with the fall of that power. By Henry Noel Humphreys. Illustrated by numerous fac-simile examples in actual relief, and in the metals of the respective coins.
Henry Noel Humphreys (1810-1879)
Category
Books
Date
1850
Materials
Measurements
237 x 173 x 50 mm
Place of origin
England
Order this imageCollection
Saltram, Devon
NT 3039310
Summary
Full description
Orientation: Vertical Text Substrate: Machine made paper. The reproduction coins are set into circular sink mats cut into thick card mounts Ink/Pigment: Black and red printing ink Type: BOUND BOOK Binding Type: Adhesive binding Date of Binding: Contemporary publishers binding Binder's Name: English End Leaves: Single fold sans pareil marbled paper made to a single fold of machine-made white paper, tipped Structure: Perfect binding Edges: Plain cut and solid red colouring, polished Spine Lining: Textile End Bands: None Bookmark: None Boards: millboard with pierced outer lamination (?) to recieve the embossing Covering: deep relief embossed green tanned sheepskin Tooling Spine: spine missing Tooling Sides: none now visible Furniture: None Enclosure: None Binding Notes: The work required to repair this book will be expensive and needs to be approved by the libraries advisor before going ahead
Bibliographic description
iv,---- . ill.. . 8vo.. Thin leather (sheep) over thick boards: deeply embossed. Red edges. Glued, "Perfect" binding. Totally disintegrated: unfit to read; too fragile to check pagination. Old shelf-mark: H-5.. Provenance:.
Provenance
Included in the List of Books situated at Saltram, offered to H.M.Treasury in part payment of death Duties by the Executors of Robert Edmund Parker (1877-1951), 4th Earl of Morley.
Makers and roles
Henry Noel Humphreys (1810-1879)