Numismatiker Exlibris

8vo, original printed card covers. 52 pages; careful descriptions of 233 items, including biographical details; text illustrations accompanied by 11 bookplates printed in colors tipped in. Fine. The main work is Copy No. 256 of only 400 issued. A charming publication featuring descriptions and illustrations of artistic nineteenth- and early twentieth-century numismatic bookplates, a number of them commissioned by both famous and little-known classical numismatists of the era. Present as well are well-designed contemporary examples, among them an erotic numismatic ex libris. Kolbe 395. Two of the three tipped-in examples do not appear in the later volume.