An essay on the coins of Cunobelin: in an epistle to the Right Reverend the Lord Bishop of Carlisle, president of the Society of antiquaries
Subtitle: wherein this noble set of coins is classed, and appropriated to our British king upon rational grounds; the opinions of the antiquaries on the word tascia are examined and refuted, and a more probable one proposed; the coins are illustrated in a short commentary; and the various uses that may be made of them in elucidating the antiquities of this island, and many passages of the classics, are briefly pointed out. Two plates are prefixed, ...
Publisher: Printed for William Bowyer, in White Fryars.
Published: 1766
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 105
Notes: Signatures: A², B-O⁴ [-]¹.

Reissued under the same title in the same year, with A² cancelled & replaced by a reprinting (partly reset) of this signature, with the leaf at end cancelled, & with signatures P-S⁴, containing p. 105-[136], added at end. In this setting of the t.-p., only a Latin quotation ("Servit collecta pecunia") & the imprint follow Pegge's name.

In part a critique of John Pettingal's "A dissertation upon the tascia", 1763.

Transfer in July 1965, from Widener Library.

Ms. table of contents for volume on front flyleaf.

Number 2 of nine titles in a volume of antiquarian tracts and manuscripts (mostly of numismatic interest) collected and bound together by Richard Gough; in this copy, the two plates are bound as frontispieces.

Pasted on p. iv is a fragment of a letter (to Gough?) in Pegge's hand, discussing the piece under the title "An essay on ye. Coins of Cunobelin, in an Epistle to Matth. Duane esq."

Ms. note on p. [106]: Of this Book only two Hundred Copies are printed at Five Shillings each: And to do Justice to the Patrons of it none will be sold after Christmass but at an advanced Price.

Detached covers; in CMI case.