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Cardwell, Edward. LECTURES ON THE COINAGE OF THE GREEKS AND ROMANS DELIVERED IN THE UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD. Oxford: Printed by S. Collingwood for John Murray, 1832. 8vo, original green boards; spine later reinforced with green cloth tape with hand-lettered spine label. xvi, 238 pages. Inscribed by the author to Sir Robert Inglis, 2nd Baronet. Front hinge cracked; very good. Scarce. The author was Camden Professor of History. He focuses on the "important knowledge contained in [coin] inscriptions," and also includes an interesting review of the earlier literature. Of Pinkerton's famous Essay, he notes "faults arising from the peculiar temper of the writer"; he observes that even Eckhel's landmark Doctrina Numorum "is gradually losing its estimation as a perfect work, under the influence of more recent discoveries"; and of Rasche's monumental Lexicon, he writes that it "exhausted so completely the existing sources of information, that it carefully preserved all their impurities." Ex ANS Library, with their bookplate and deaccession stamp.