1830 Enamelled Impressions Struck off From the Splendid Series of Medal Dies, Illustrative of the Holy Scriptures

Description

Colour Plates, First Edition, Illustrated, Leather Binding, Original Binding, Scarce

The first edition of this work.

Twenty-seven medals reproduced in this volume.

Descriptive leaves for the twenty-eighth and twenty-ninth medals are detached but present, without the corresponding medal reproducing. Lacking the descriptive leave and illustration for medal thirty.

Volume I only of a total of II volumes.

In the original publisher's box, with metal clasps in tact and in full working order. Presentation box is in a very good condition.

Edward Thomason's work celebrating his series of sixty silver medals depicting Biblical subjects, a large project he undertook, working off paintings of old masters. The medals depict important scenes and figures of the Bible, the first medal in this volume showing the creation of the Earth.

Thomason presented these medals to all of the sovereigns in Europe, and to the president of the United States, and the Emperor of China, who sadly returned his medal.

This was the first known embossed coin or medal book, and the only one struck from the actual dies.

This work compiles enamel impressions of the obverses of the medals. The reverse contain an explanation of the Biblical scene.