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MUDIE. J. |
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An Historical and Critical Account of a Grand Series of National medals. London 1820 |
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Quarto, pp xx, 152; 10 engraved plates, spotted as usual, illustrating 40 medals; the text relatively clean and fresh; untrimmed. Recently rebound in dark blue cloth, back gilt. Inscribed by the author to Major General Sir Herbert Taylor. Loosely inserted: 8 page printed advertisement for the work; inscribed at head: J. T. Brockett Esq. at head. Brockett is included in the list of subscribers to the published work. Very scarce.
See Manville. Biographical Dictionary: Brockett, John Trotter (1788–1842). Antiquary, historian, philologist, and attorney, of Newcastle-upon-Tyne. FSA c.1822. A founder-member of the Society of Antiquaries of Newcastle upon Tyne, for which, according to C. M. Fraser in the Oxford Dictionary of National Biography, he compiled a list of the Society’s seventeenth-century tokens (published posthumously in 1854). |
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