HUMPHREYS, HENRY NOEL. The Coinage of the British Empire. London: Charles Griffin 1863. 8vo, binding: 254 x 182mm. (10 x 7 1/8in.), original publisher's papier mâché 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, black morocco spine gilt-lettered (much gilding lost), marbled endpapers, g.e., by Leighton Son and Hodge with their ticket, slight wear to corners, modern cloth slipcase. 24 plates, 12 of them chromolithographs, printed by Day & Son. McLean Victorian Book Design, p. 112 ("another work of successful popularization") and plate 213 for the plaque. The J.R. Abbey copy, bookplate and ink accession number.

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HUMPHREYS, HENRY NOEL. The Coinage of the British Empire. London: Charles Griffin 1863. 8vo, binding: 254 x 182mm. (10 x 7 1/8in.), original publisher's papier mâché 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, black morocco spine gilt-lettered (much gilding lost), marbled endpapers, g.e., by Leighton Son and Hodge with their ticket, slight wear to corners, modern cloth slipcase. 24 plates, 12 of them chromolithographs, printed by Day & Son. McLean Victorian Book Design, p. 112 ("another work of successful popularization") and plate 213 for the plaque. The J.R. Abbey copy, bookplate and ink accession number.