Tindal, Nicholas, and Paul de Rapin. THE METALLICK HISTORY OF THE REIGNS OF KING WILLIAM III. AND QUEEN MARY, QUEEN ANNE, AND KING GEORGE I. ... London: John and Paul Knapton, 1747. Folio [40.5 by 25 cm, later dark green quarter morocco with green cloth sides. 40 + 22 pages; 32 finely engraved plates of medals, arranged 22 + 9 + 1, with the plate following the 9 serving both as Plate X for Queen Anne and Plate I for George I. Spine sunned; boards a bit bowed. Very good or better. According to Manville, “The plates of medals were engraved by John Basire (1730–1802), engraver to the Society of Antiquaries... These are the separately printed and unified numismatic sections of Tindal’s Continuation of Rapin-Thoyras’s L’Histoire d’Angelterre, for 1686–1715, with a special title-page.” Manville 138a, citing the drop title.
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