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Original leather boards with re-backed spine measuring 12 x 9.25”, 4to. Medals, Coins, Great Seals, and Other Works of Thomas Simon: Engraved and Described By George Vertue. The Second Edition, With Additional Plates and Notes, and An Appendix by the Editor. London, Printed by J. Nichols, Printer to the Society of Antiquaries. Sold by T. Payne and Son; C. Dilly; H. Payne; J. Water; and N. Conant. 1780, Stated Second Edition, 95 p., 40 plts (Complete). [bound with] Numismata Scotiæ, Or a Series of the Scottish Coinage, from the Reign of William the Lion to the Union. By Adam De Cardonnel, Member of the Antiquarian Society of Edinburgh. Edinburgh: Printed for George Nicol, His Majesty’s Booksellers, London. 1786. First Edition. 157 p. + 33p. Appendix. XIV Plts. + The Gold Coinage, with the Billion or Copper Money of Scotland. From the Reign of Robert II. To the Union. (PLATE III LACKING), 19 plates included (incomplete). In fair condition. Original leather boards normally scuffed at edges and worn/bumped at corners. Contemporary leather spine clean & intact. Ownership bookplates found on front paste-down & end-page: “Martin Inett Preston.” & “William Ashley Webb: 3rd Baron de Mauley, 1903.” Front gutter beginning to split at head. Light toning throughout text-block; mostly at edges of leaves. Some instances of age-staining or finger-soiling. Off-setting to leaves adjacent to plates. Restored binding tight and intact. Please see photos and ask questions, if any, before purchasing. George Vertue FSA (1684 – 1756) was an English engraver and antiquary, whose notebooks on British art of the first half of the 18th century are a valuable source for the period. Approximately five hundred portraits are attributed to Vertue, a similar number of published plates were devoted to antiquarian subjects. Many of the portraits were printed as frontispieces, most are regarded as accurate representations of the subject and many are not without artistic merit. As official engraver to the Society of Antiquaries, with works relating to this field of natural history, Vertue was prolific: Richard II at Westminster; a view of Waltham Cross; the shrine of Edward the Confessor; are notable mentions from his works in Vetusta Monumental. His publications include A Description of the Works of Wenceslaus Hollar , 1745 (reprinted 1759); and Medals, Coins, Great Seals, Impressions from the Works of Thomas Simon, 1753 (reprinted 1780). Vertue was also involved with the pre-production of surveys of royal collections, Vanderdoort's catalogue of the collection of Charles I, Chiffinch's James II collection and his on that of Queen Caroline at Kensington; these saw print after his death, prefaced by Walpole. Adam Mansfeldt de Cardonnel-Lawson, in early life Adam Cardonnel FSA Scot (1746/7–1820) was a Scottish antiquarian. He was the sole surviving son of Mansfeldt de Cardonnel of Musselburgh, a commissioner of the customs and salt duties in Scotland, and his wife Anne, daughter and heir of Thomas Hilton of Low Ford, County Durham. He was a grandnephew of Adam de Cardonnel, secretary to the Duke of Marlborough. Cardonnel was educated for the medical profession, and practised for a while as a surgeon. When the Society of Antiquaries of Scotland was founded in December 1780, he was elected a fellow; he also served as curator from 1782 to 1784. Cardonnel left Scotland on succeeding to the estates of his second cousin Hilton Lawson, at Chirton and Cramlington in Northumberland. He served as High Sheriff of Northumberland in 1796, and assumed the surname of Lawson after Cardonnel. In 1811 he began to pull down his house at Chirton, and went to live in a small farmhouse at Cramlington. Professionally re-backed. Gift quality. RAREB1780FQRX 07/24 - HK1903