Details
CHETWYND, Sir George -- Thomas SHARP. A Catalogue of Provincial Copper Coins, Tokens, Tickets, and Medalets issued in Great Britain, Ireland, and the Colonies during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries ... described from the originals in the collection of Sir George Chetwynd, Baronet, London: J. B. Nichols and Son, 1834, 4° (319 x 245mm.), FIRST AND ONLY EDITION, LIMITED TO 52 COPIES, PRESENTATION COPY FROM SIR GEORGE CHETWYND TO SIR MATHEW ROBINSON, title vignette, engraved view of Sir George Chetwynd's seat at Grendon Hall, Warwickshire, as tail-piece (2K2 cleanly torn), original maroon half morocco gilt by C. Whitehead of Coventry, flat-backed spine with gilt lettering in Gothic style (extremities rubbed), uncut and partly unopened. [Goldsmith 28619]
Provenance
"To Mathew Robinson Boulton Esq. with Sir George Chetwynd's best regards and grateful acknowledgments of the liberality and kindness which he has experienced at Soho Mint September 5th 1834," inscription to front blank.