National Edition of Shakespeare’s Works, 1803, a silver Subscriber’s medal by C.H. Küchler for J. and J. Boydell, Shakespeare seated on rock, flanked by figures of Drama and Painting, rev. legend and date in sixteen lines, edge named (Sir Alured Clarke), 48mm (Pollard 28; BHM 553; E 950). Some minor deposit, otherwise extremely fine [with PCGS MS 61 slab tag] £400-£500

Field Marshal Sir Alured Clarke GCB (1744-1832), British army officer; given command of 7th Regiment of Foot, serving in America, 1777; given command of all British troops in Georgia, 1780; deployed to Philadelphia to supervise evacuation of British prisoners-of-war, 1783; Governor of Jamaica, 1784-90; Lieutenant-Governor of Lower Canada, 1790-3; Commander-in-Chief, Madras Army, 1796-7; Acting Governor-General of India, 1798; Commander-in-Chief, India, 1798-1801