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Vertue on Thomas Simon
Vertue, George. MEDALS, COINS, GREAT SEALS, AND OTHER WORKS OF THOMAS SIMON: ENGRAVED AND DESCRIBED BY GEORGE VERTUE. THE SECOND EDITION, WITH ADDITIONAL PLATES AND NOTES, AND AN APPENDIX BY THE EDITOR. London: Printed by J. Nichols, 1780. 4to, modern brown quarter morocco; spine with five raised bands, dated in gilt; red spine label, gilt. 10, 66, 67–74*, 67–72, 75–95, (1) pages, complete except for the printed title leaf, which is lacking; 40 superb engraved plates including the elaborately engraved title page. Some spotting, but an attractive copy on the whole. Very good copy in a fine binding. One of the most delightful of all 18th-century English numismatic books. Vertue's plates are works of art in every possible sense. Forrer, in his Biographical Dictionary of Medallists, pronounced Simon "the finest medallist who ever worked in England." Vertue's magnificent work was the first and only substantial study of an individual English medallist until well into the following century. The text displays evidence of considerable scholarly research, and has inevitably been used as a starting point for later studies of Simon's work. Edited by the antiquary Richard Gough, this second, and preferred, edition was given a new printed title page (lacking in this copy), two additional plates, and notes by both Gough and Charles Combe with transcriptions of documentary sources.
Vertue, George. MEDALS, COINS, GREAT SEALS, AND OTHER WORKS OF THOMAS SIMON: ENGRAVED AND DESCRIBED BY GEORGE VERTUE. THE SECOND EDITION, WITH ADDITIONAL PLATES AND NOTES, AND AN APPENDIX BY THE EDITOR. London: Printed by J. Nichols, 1780. 4to, modern brown quarter morocco; spine with five raised bands, dated in gilt; red spine label, gilt. 10, 66, 67–74*, 67–72, 75–95, (1) pages, complete except for the printed title leaf, which is lacking; 40 superb engraved plates including the elaborately engraved title page. Some spotting, but an attractive copy on the whole. Very good copy in a fine binding. One of the most delightful of all 18th-century English numismatic books. Vertue's plates are works of art in every possible sense. Forrer, in his Biographical Dictionary of Medallists, pronounced Simon "the finest medallist who ever worked in England." Vertue's magnificent work was the first and only substantial study of an individual English medallist until well into the following century. The text displays evidence of considerable scholarly research, and has inevitably been used as a starting point for later studies of Simon's work. Edited by the antiquary Richard Gough, this second, and preferred, edition was given a new printed title page (lacking in this copy), two additional plates, and notes by both Gough and Charles Combe with transcriptions of documentary sources.