Ancient, British and World Coins, Numismatic Books

Ruding, R., Annals of the Coinage of Great Britain and its Dependencies from the earliest period of authentick history to the end of the fiftieth year of the reign of his present Majesty, 3 vols, 1st edn, London, 1817-19, xxvi + 518pp, 532pp, xxxvi + 542pp, index; together with Supplement, London, 1819, viii + 88pp, map and plan of the Mint, 42 + 19 + 6 + 16 engraved plates [4]. Uniform polished brown half calf and marbled boards, spines and t.e.g.; some foxing in earlier volumes but plates clean and fresh, a very fine set of this edition, the Supplement rare and with the plates clean and free of foxing, inside front cover of vol. I with the bookplate of Stephen Simpson (£300-350)

Provenance:
Myers & Co (London) FPL 344, November 1945 (298)
Ex libris Stephen Simpson, Poundsgate, Devon, with his bookplate
SNC September 1979 (6891)
David Griffiths