Newton at the Mint
Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1946. Very Good / Very Good. Item #48025
Cambridge: At the University Press, 1946. First Edition. Small octavo (19.3cm); pictorial dust jacket with 7s. 6d. net price intact; publisher's blindstamped red cloth with silver lettering to spine; [viii],128pp.; four plates including frontis, all present. Jacket edgeworn with some surface scuffs and smudges. Boards square with light bumping at spine ends. Small bookplate of Dr. Sydney Ross of Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, New York to front pastedown. Brief pencil notes to recto of rear free endpaper and rear jacket flap, else unmarked. Binding sound.
A short account of Isaac Newton's thirty-year tenure as Warden, and later Master, of the Royal Mint, written by a fellow Master of the Mint John Craig.
Price: $75.00