British and World Coins

Sotheby & Co (London), The Montagu Collection of Coins: Part I, Catalogue of the British & Anglo-Saxon Series, 18-22 November 1895, 857 lots, 6 plates; Part II, 11-16 May 1896, 857 lots, 7 plates; Part III, 13-20 November 1896, 988 lots, 13 plates + frontispiece portrait; Part IV, English Copper, Irish, Scottish and Anglo-Gallic Series, 15-17 July 1897, 373 lots, 5 plates; Part V, Anglo-Saxon & English Coins and Medals, 16-20 November 1897, 737 lots, 5 plates. The complete series of post-mortem Montagu British coin sales, priced with buyers’ names throughout; bound in maroon half-leather, ribbed spine with gilt lettering, binding somewhat scuffed and a few pencil annotations in the hand of Philip Carlyon-Britton, otherwise a fine set of this important reference £300-400

Provenance: Ex libris Philip Carlyon-Britton with his bookplate; Raymond Carlyon-Britton with his bookplate; Ernest Danson, Derby [from Seaby]