Author: [PINKERTON (John)]:
Title: An Essay on Medals.
Description: London: Printed for James Dodsley..., 1784. FIRST EDITION. 8vo, 198 x 113 mms., pp. xxxii, 324 [325 - 326 "Corrections"], uncut, with an autograph letters, signed, address to the author and Mason J. Kinton Bond and dated 18 June, 1892, signed "H. Henson,"19th century buckram, a bit soiled. Herbert Hensley Henson (8 November 1863 – 27 September 1947) was an Anglican priest, scholar and controversialist. He was Bishop of Hereford, 1918–20 and Bishop of Durham, 1920–39. The son of a zealous member of the Plymouth Brethren, Henson was not allowed to go to school until he was fourteen, and was largely self-educated. He was admitted to the University of Oxford, and gained a first-class degree in 1884. In the same year he was elected as a Fellow of All Souls, where he began to make a reputation as a speaker. He was ordained as a priest in 1888. (Wikipedia). The Critical Review for 1784 described the work as "concise, perspicuous, and unaffected...," concluding that the work that "The work affords a comprehensive, systematic account of medals; and will be read with pleasure by those who has a taste for that entertaining part of historical knowledge." Pinkerton (1758 - 1826) revised and enlarged the work for a second edition in two volumes in 1789, and followed up with The Medallic History of England to the Revolution (1790).

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