Ancient Coins, Artefacts and Numismatic Books

Head, B.V., …British Museum…A Guide to Principal Gold and Silver Coins of the Ancients, London, 1883, vii + 128pp, 7 plates; Hill, G.F., A Handbook of Greek and Roman Coins, London, 1899, xv + 295pp, 15 plates; Mattingly, H., Roman Coins, 1st edn, London, 1928, xix + 300pp, 64 plates; [Hill, G.F.], A Guide to the Principal Coins of the Greeks, London, 1932, iv + 106pp, 50 plates; Sutherland, C.H.V., Coinage and Currency in Roman Britain, London, 1937, xii + 184pp, 14 plates (Manville 947), dedication to Miss M. Kitson Clark from members of her 1938-39 York Class in ‘Roman Yorkshire’, 3 April 1939, with 16 signatures, on first free endpaper; Sutherland, C.H.V., and Kraay, C.M., Catalogue of Coins of the Roman Empire in the Ashmolean Museum, Part I, Augustus, Oxford, 1975, xv + 36 plates and text; together with other references on ancient coins (4), by Mattingly, Stevenson, etc [10]. First in maroon cloth, ALS from Percy Gardner, 12 Canterbury Road, Oxford, to a Mr Carter, 22 October 1917, and an Autotype price list for 1912 tipped-in; second in full maroon leather for Merchant Taylors’ School, being the Head Master’s Prize for Greek & Latin Grammar, 1906, gilt and blind, decorated and ribbed spine, a superb copy; others in publishers’ bindings £70-90

Provenance: Ex libris Alan Morris, some with his bookplates, additionally: first with signature of Charles W. Baty on first free endpaper, second with Merchant Taylors’ label naming the original recipient as R. McK. Wood (later an aerodynamicist at RAE Farnborough), fourth de-accessed from Hereford Cathedral School Library, with their bookplate, originally gifted to the library through the W.S. Marshall bequest, fifth ex libris Miss M. Kitson Clark