Watch List notes:

United States Government. ANNUAL REPORT OF THE DIRECTOR OF THE MINT TO THE SECRETARY OF THE TREASURY FOR THE FISCAL YEAR ENDED JUNE 30, 1876–1879. Titles vary somewhat. Four consecutive volumes, individually bound as issued. 8vo, original brown, black or blue cloth embossed in blind and lettered in gilt. 68 + 109, (3) + 61, (3) + 141, (1) pages. Generally very good or better. Four consecutive volumes of these important publications, after they began to be published in cloth-bound editions. Often containing information unavailable elsewhere, they have long been relied upon for reliable information regarding Mint practices. The Mint Act of 1873 redefined the mandate behind the Annual Mint Report, and the modern series is numbered from that Act. While they are more common than earlier Mint Reports, the volumes from the 1870s remain fairly scarce, and were almost entirely distributed to institutional libraries: none of these bear any sign of previous institutional ownership. Ex Syd Martin Library.