AKERMAN, John Yonge. Coins Of The Romans Relating to Britain Described & Illustrated.
London, John Russell Smith, 1844. First Edition. 168 pp., one illus., 6 fine engraved plates., slightly waterstained, 8 fine woodcuts. lightly trimmed. Advertisement.
Recent excellent half calf over the original blind stamped burgundy cloth boards, five raised bands, neatly sewn haedbands, spine gilt. Fine binding by Atkinson of Salisbury.
From the personal library of Lord Avebury, with his fine engraved Armorial bookplate and with his autograph "Avebury 1901" on the title page. Avebury was a famous collector and author of numismatic works himself, and many penciled annotations on the plates and text of this copy, in a fine contemporary hand, seem to match parts of his autograph and may possibly be his.