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Pinkerton, John. AN ESSAY ON MEDALS: OR, AN INTRODUCTION TO THE KNOWLEDGE OF ANCIENT AND MODERN COINS AND MEDALS; ESPECIALLY THOSE OF GREECE, ROME, AND BRITAIN... A NEW EDITION, CORRECTED, GREATLY ENLARGED, AND ILLUSTRATED WITH PLATES. London: Printed for J. Edwards and J. Johnson, 1789. Two volumes, complete. 8vo, contemporary brown calf. xlviii, 302 + iv, 364 pages; 6 attractively engraved plates, 5 depicting coins. Covers worn; hand-lettered spine labels affixed with tape; a couple of signatures loose; good. The second edition of Pinkerton's popular work, in a contemporary binding. Still of interest today. He covers topics that the more scholarly tomes of the era neglected, including the basics of assembling and caring for a collection of coins. Lipsius 314. Manville 221: "Substantially expanded from the anonymous first edition." Ex Emma Evans, with her 1834-dated signature in both volumes; ex Louis E. Elisaberg, Sr. Library; ex Richard A. Eliasberg Library.