A Catalogue of Coins of the Roman Empire in The British Museum
A new limited edition reprint
in 6 volumes
undertaken by SPINK
By arrangement with
The British Museum Press,
A division of
The British Museum Company Ltd.
LONDON, 2005.
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INTRODUCTION
This important series of books has become one of the most famous in the history of numismatics, the original having been written and printed over a period of forty years from 1923 to 1962. Reprints and revisions have appeared periodically, but the complete set of six volumes has largely been unobtainable as a unit for many years and prices on the second hand market have reached sums beyond that of the average collector.
It was with this in mind and with new technology at our disposal that the current reprint was undertaken in association with the British Museum Press, a division of the British Museum Company.
Previous reprints matched the original edition which ran to eight parts in total, volumes 4 and 5 being so vast that they ran to two volumes each. This latest reprint has reduced the overall number of parts by selecting the optimum grade of paper for the text and plates and by backing-up the plates so that they are no longer printed on one side of the paper only.
The plates in this edition are perhaps the major difference between this and previous reprints. We have used the plates from the original editions and through the expertise of the printers, Cambridge University Press, have perfected a method of replicating the original collotype plates, previously thought to be impossible to achieve. The result is that the plates in this edition are as good as the originals.
As for the text, this consists of a high-quality digitally scanned reprint taken from the latest editions and reprints, so this edition combines the quality of the original plates and the most up-to-date information. In combining the two parts of volumes 4 and 5 to make one volume for each, the order of the text has changed slightly but in fact it is now clearer for the user.
This being a limited edition, we expect demand to be high both for complete sets and for those odd volumes that individuals require to complete their sets. They are bound in a cloth as close as possible to that of the originals so as to maintain uniformity, and they are published without dustcovers.
Philip Skingley
London
March, 2005.
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Volumes available individually as follows:
Volume I – Augustus to Vitellius
704 pages + 64 plates
£60
Volume II – Vespasian to Domitian
592 pages + 83 plates
£60
Volume III – Nerva to Hadrian
832 pages + 102 plates
£70
Volume IV – Antoninus Pius to Commodus
1168 pages + 111 plates
£95
Volume V – Pertinax to Elagabalus
976 pages + 97 plates
£125
Volume VI – Severus Alexander to Balbinus Pupienus
320 pages + 56 plates
£45
Or sold as a complete set at the special price of £400
Plus postage and packing
Orders To Spink & Son Ltd, 69 Southampton Row, Bloomsbury, London WC1B 4ET, UK
Tel: (+44) 020 7563 4046 or 4056 / Fax: (+44) 020 7563 4068
e-mail:
books@spink.com
