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Snelling, Thomas. SNELLING ON THE COINS OF GREAT BRITAIN, FRANCE AND IRELAND, &c... as follows:... The whole containing seventy copper plates. London: sold by the proprietor, J. Thane, Rupert Street, Haymarket. [Price Four Pounds in boards], (c.1774.) Folio. Various paginations, engraved plates. Frontispiece consisting of a sepia profile of Snelling, 15 x 19.5 cm., drawn and engraved by the publisher and mounted on the preliminary blank. Bound in full contemporary reddish brown morocco, covers bordered in gilt, turn-ins gilt, spine richly gilt in compartments with raised bands, lettered in gilt; in fine condition.

Snelling (1712-1773) was a coin dealer and bookseller in London, as well as the author and publisher of an impressive body of numismatic works,"meritorious productions for their time." Present here is an almost complete posthumously published collection of Snelling's works in their original separate printings (the fourth one issued posthumously in 1774,) with a general title page, a four page introduction, and a portrait engraved in 1770 by the publisher, J. Thane, who apparently acquired Snelling's stock. This collected reissue was no doubt prepared for Snelling prior to his death; the four page introduction makes no mention of his passing, and there is no sign of editorial responsibility; the most recent piece, dated 1764, carries a notice of the author's death and its title page refers to the"late Mr. Snelling." Of the ten works listed in the DNB, seven (including one of West Indies interest) are reissued here: A view of the gold coin and coinage of England from Henry the Third to the present time, 1763, 38pp., plates; A view of the silver coin and coinage of England from the Norman Conquest to the present time, 1762, 55pp., plates; A view of the copper coin and coinage of England..., 1766, 46,6pp., plates; A view of the silver coin and coinage of Scotland..., 1774, 20pp., plates; Miscellaneous views of the coins struck by English Princes in France, counterfeit sterlings, coins struck by the East India Company, those in the West India colonies..., 1769, 54pp., plates; A supplement to Mr. Simon's Essay on Irish coins, 1767, 8pp., plate; A view of the origin, nature, and use of jettons or counters..., 1769, 16pp., plates. Of the three works not present here, one was first published posthumously in 1776, too late for this collected issue; another is a purely technical work on computations, perhaps deemed irrelevant; the third is Snelling's earliest published work, Seventy two plates of gold and silver coin, mostly English, 1757, of which perhaps no copies remained. This, and only this collected issue appears in the ESTC (8/01): Cambridge, Royal Irish Academy, John Rylands Library, Oxford; James Ford Bell Library, Univ. of Chicago, Northwestern, Univ. of Kansas, Metropolitan Museum of Art, N.Y. A particularly desireable copy in a contemporary fine binding. Kress 6143, 6061, 6387, 7055, 6685, 6756, 6686. (7588)