NUMISMATIC ART IN AMERICA

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The One Hundred Greatest Items Of United States Numismatic Literature Rank: Number 48


Clain-Stefanelli 12508*, Davis 1097, Grierson page 221

A Boston University professor in fine arts and classics, and director of Boston’s Museum of Fine Arts, Cornelius Vermeule has applied a much needed perspective of artistic criticism to the field of American numismatics. For the collector who has graduated past dates and mintmarks, Vermeule delivers a delightful exposé of the oeuvre of our national engravers, setting their work in historic and artistic context. Although isolated from the Old World by space and time, early American artists remained highly influenced by a common Greco-Roman heritage, for which the reader will have a much greater appreciation after absorbing Vermeule’s volume. The second edition, published by Whitman in 2007, is illustrated in full color and adds a chapter by David T. Alexander updating the work from its original writing in 1971 to the present time.

1st Edition

First Edition.Photo courtesy of Thomas Wetter Numismatic Library.
First Edition.
Photo courtesy of Thomas Wetter Numismatic Library.
First edition dust jacket.Photo courtesy of Wayne K. Homren Numismatic Library.
First edition dust jacket.
Photo courtesy of Wayne K. Homren Numismatic Library.

VERMEULE, Cornelius. NUMISMATIC ART IN AMERICA.
Cambridge, MA: 1971
266pp,
Octavo: 26 x 18.5cm
Hardbound: Black cloth, lettered in silver, dust jacket


2nd Edition

Second Edition.Photo courtesy of Wayne K. Homren Numismatic Library.
Second Edition.
Photo courtesy of Wayne K. Homren Numismatic Library.

Cambridge, MA: 1971
320pp, color illustrations
Octavo
Hardbound: Pictorial boards


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