An essay on the means of distinguishing antique from countefeit coins and medals
By: Translated from the French of m. Beauvais; with notes and illustrations by John Trotter Brockett
Publisher: Printed by S. Hodgson, Union-street, for E. Charnley
Published: 1819
Place of publication: Newcastle
Language: eng
Translated from: fre
Number of pages: 94
Notes: Illustration on half-title (showing the coat of arms of the translator) by Thomas Bewick.

Errata slip inserted at end.

No. 6 in v. 6 of a collection of the publications of the Newcastle typographical society.

Added t.p., with vignette (Brockett's device).

"The first edition ... was printed at Paris ... in the year 1739. It was afterwards corrected and enlarged by the author, and added to his 'Historire abrégée des Empereurs Romains et Grecs' ... This latter ... has been followed in the present translation."--Pref.

One of a typographically uniform series of volumes, with woodcut vignettes by Bewick and his pupils, published in Newcastle, the earliest in 1817; after the foundation of the Typographical Society of Newcastle upon Tyne in 1818 the publications were issued under the auspices of the Society.