A VIEW OF THE SILVER COIN AND COINAGE OF ENGLAND, from the Norman Conquest to the Present Time. Consider’d with Regard to Type, Legend, Sorts, Rarity, Weight, Fineness and Value. by SNELLING, Thomas. 7 volumes bound in one, 88 engraved plates.:

London, printed for T. Snelling, 1762.. SEVEN VOLUMES IN ONE: Silver Coin 1762; Gold Coin from Henry the Third to the present time, 1763; Copper Coin, Including The Leaden, Tin and Laton Tokens made by Tradesmen during the Reigns of Elizabeth and James I... 1766; Coins struck by English Princes in France, Counterfeit Sterlings, Coins struck by the East India Company, West India, Isle of Man etc., 1769; Jettons or Counters... Black Money and Abbey Pieces...the manner of reckoning with them... 1769; Silver Coin of Scotland (1774); Thirty Three Plates, of English Medals by the Late Mr Thomas Snelling, 1776; FIRST EDITIONS, 1762-1776, folio, approximately 320 x 230 mm, 12½ x 9 inches, 7 dated title pages, No. 7 has an engraved title page, pages: Volume 1, [2], 1-55, 17 plates; Volume 2, [2], iv, 1-36 (i.e. 38), 7 plates; Volume 3, [4], 1-46, 1-6 - Appendix, 7 plates; Volume 4, [4], 1-54, 7 plates; Volume 5, [4], 1-16, 7 plates; Volume 6, [1], [4], 1-20, 10 plates; Volume 7, [2], followed by 33 engraved plates, A TOTAL OF 88 ENGRAVED PLATES, plus 9 text illustrations each showing several coins, 7 pictorial headpieces and 7 decorated initials, bound in full tree calf, gilt patterned border to covers, expertly rebacked with original backstrip laid on, gilt raised bands and richly gilt in compartments, original gilt lettered red morocco label, all edges yellow, narrow gilt dentelles (turn ins), marbled endpapers. Very small repairs to 3 corners of covers, neat larger repair to lower corner of lower cover, a couple of tiny pale spots on first title page, occasionally a little pale browning to margins, a few neat early ink notes to 5 margins, a few neat text corrections, a small closed tear to 1 margin with neat old repair, Plate 27 in the final Medals set is slightly frayed at fore-edge affecting margin only, otherwise all plates in very good clean condition, inserted at the end of the Jetons section is a printed list of Medals struck since the latter end of the Reign of King William III. Thomas Snelling (17121773) was an English numismatist who carried on business as a coin dealer and bookseller at No. 163 Fleet Street, next the Horn Tavern (now Anderton's Hotel). His name often occurs as a purchaser at London coin-sales about 1766, and among his numismatic customers was William Hunter the anatomist. MORE IMAGES ATTACHED TO THIS LISTING, ALL ZOOMABLE, FURTHER IMAGES ON REQUEST. POSTAGE AT COST.