Product Description
Quarto. 357 [1]pp., lxiii plates. Original blue cloth with gilt publisher's device and ruling on cover, gilt lettering, publisher's device and triple ruling on spine. Typed letter to Mr. Turner, signed by Quintin Waddington attached to gutter of front free endpaper. Publisher's device in b/w on title page. Small printed errata page laid in. Contains extensive list of works cited. Part I with chapters on casting-counter or Jettons from European countries, Part II counting-boards and counter-cloths, and part III on methods of casting with Jettons. Index on Legends and Inscriptions and general index at rear. Page 357 with additions and corrections. Five brief newspaper clippings on the subject, including "Arithmetic by "Casters" by Quintin Waddington of the Guildhall Museum pasted to back free endpaper. Ephemera "Counting in the Ancient Middle East" and "Clay 'Tokens," both 2pp. and identified "Proto-Writing," and two double-sided pages from the "Numismatic Circular" laid in at rear; all three illustrated. Majority of numismatic depictions from France. First page of lithographically rendered plates with heavy foxing, mostly in margins, diminishing drastically on following four pages. Binding with light wear along edges and lightly rubbed.
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