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First Edition of the Earl of Liverpool's Treatise
Liverpool, Charles Jenkinson First Earl of. A TREATISE ON THE COINS OF THE REALM; IN A LETTER TO THE KING. Oxford, 1805. First edition. 4to, contemporary full English calf; both sides bordered in gilt; spine with five raised bands, ruled and decorated in gilt; red spine label, gilt; marbled endpapers. (4), 268 pages. Joints cracked; marginal staining and some spotting. Good to very good. John McCullough, in The Literature of Political Economy, terms Jenkinson's treatise a "work of great and deserved authority and comprises a greater amount of information respecting the coins of the kingdom ... than is perhaps to be met with in any other publication." Leitzmann 79.
Liverpool, Charles Jenkinson First Earl of. A TREATISE ON THE COINS OF THE REALM; IN A LETTER TO THE KING. Oxford, 1805. First edition. 4to, contemporary full English calf; both sides bordered in gilt; spine with five raised bands, ruled and decorated in gilt; red spine label, gilt; marbled endpapers. (4), 268 pages. Joints cracked; marginal staining and some spotting. Good to very good. John McCullough, in The Literature of Political Economy, terms Jenkinson's treatise a "work of great and deserved authority and comprises a greater amount of information respecting the coins of the kingdom ... than is perhaps to be met with in any other publication." Leitzmann 79.