Chronicon Preciosum: Or, an Account of English Gold and Silver Money; The Price of Corn and other Commodities; and of Stipends, Salaries, Wages, Jointures, Portions, Day-Labour, etc, in England, for Six Hundred Years last past: To which is added, An Historical Account of Coins, Illustrated
by Bishop William Fleetwood
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- good
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Good
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Binding in full leather with five raised bands on the spine. Cover edges and corners are worn. The hinges are broken but the cords are holding the covers well. Former owner's bookplate on front pastedown: "William Charles De Meudon Earl Fitzwilliam." Also, inked letters at top left of pastedown: B: 5: 51 (marked through) E. VI. 5. No title on spine. Gently effaced library ownershp stamps on bottom title page and first text page. Paper clean and unfoxed. 147 pages followed by a 2-page index, and an appendix of 30 pages plus 12 plates illustrating gold coins of the kings of England.
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- Eugene Library Friends (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- ANT-AD-043023-1
- Title
- Chronicon Preciosum: Or, an Account of English Gold and Silver Money; The Price of Corn and other Commodities; and of Stipends, Salaries, Wages, Jointures, Portions, Day-Labour, etc, in England, for Six Hundred Years last past
- Author
- Bishop William Fleetwood
- Format/Binding
- Full leather with five raised bands on the spine.
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- T. Osborne, in Gray's-Inn
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1745
- Pages
- 147
- Weight
- 0.80 lbs
- Keywords
- Chronicon Preciosum, Bishop Fleetwood, English coinage
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