Snelling’s Seventy-one Plates of gold and silver coin, with their weight, fineness and value. London, for H. Chapman, no date (c.1774?)
Description
Royal octavo; printed title within typographical border; fine engravings of obverse and reverse of 71 coins on 24 leaves, each plate with details of weight, fine-ness and value of each coin. Untrimmed, and attractively bound in later polished tan half calf; marbled boards. Armorial bookplate of Lt-Col. William Ross King on endpaper; later printed ex libris facing. Extremely scarce. £350
There are at least three different issues of this work (1774? 1790? and 1823 and all are very scarce. See Manville. Bibliography.