UNITED STATES COPPER CENTS, 1816–1857.
New York: Numismatic Review, 1944. First edition. 4to, original russet cloth, gilt. 284 pages; 11 plates. Addenda leaf laid in. Edges lightly rubbed; near fine. Item #7808
A near fine copy of the first edition of this important work. Completed four years earlier, Newcomb’s work was not published until 1944 due to the war. It marked a great improvement over the pioneering work of Frank Andrews, nearly doubling the variety listings, and stood as the standard work for half a century. The result of many years of painstaking study, relatively few new varieties have been discovered in the intervening years. Dr. Sheldon noted that “Newcomb’s book doubtless achieves the highest pinnacle for numismatic completeness.” His contemporary and collaborator George H. Clapp wrote: “In his line,—the Large Cents,—he can well be classed with the late Edward T. Newell in his line of Greece and Rome.” Clain-Stefanelli 12326.
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