Green calf spine with gilt banding and title . Green cloth boards.

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A second edition of this fascinating numismatic work on the coins of Great Britain and Ireland, illustrated with facsimiles. Detailing the history of British coins from the earliest period until the late nineteenth century.Written by Colonel W. Stewart Thorburn.A second edition.Illustrated with facsimiles of the coins in gold and silver, as well as a frontispiece of the author. With twenty-nine plates.With pages of publisher’s advertisements to the rear. Nicely rebound.

Coin collecting was a hobby of Colonel W. Stewart Thorburn, an obituary is found at the front of the second edition.