Author: EVELYN, John.
Title: Numismata: a discourse of medals, antient and modern. Together with some account of heads and effigies of illustrious, and famous persons, in sculps, and taille-douce, of whom we have no medals extant; and of the use to be derived from them. To which is added a Digression concerning physiognomy.
Description: London: Printed for Benj. Tooke at the Middle Temple-Gate, in Fleetstreet, 1697. Fol. [8], 342. [14]p. Quires signed A-Xx in fours, followed by Yy-Zz, Aaa in twos. Title in red and black. Occasional slight marginal discolouration. Contemporary panelled calf, showing wear at corners and joints, and at head and foot of spine; rear cover scuffed; spine undecorated, title-label lost; discolouration from turn-ins evident at outer edges of endpapers. Armorial bookplate of James Alexander McCash of Gallowhill overlaying a removed earlier bookplate. Wing E3505; Keynes 104.

Keywords: medals, engraving, numismatics, physiognomy


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