The Posthumous Large Cent Book

Breen, Walter, and Del Bland. WALTER BREEN’S ENCYCLOPEDIA OF EARLY UNITED STATES CENTS, 1793–1814. Edited by Mark Borckardt. Wolfeboro: Bowers & Merena, 2000. 4to, original pictorial boards. 857, (37) pages, including 34 plates of coins, numerous text illustrations and enlargements. Near fine. The fabled large cent revision, published posthumously based on Breen’s extensive notes on early large cents and including improved die state analysis, historical background, and documentary evidence, but probably most useful for Del Bland’s provenance research and expanded condition census information.