[Printed handbill] 'An Account of the Quantity of Copper Coined by Mr. Boulton, Distinguishing the Amount of Twopenny Pieces, Penny Pieces, Halfpence, and Farthings into which it was coined, with the Nominal Value of each'.

Author: 
Matthew Robinson Boulton, son of Matthew Boulton (1728-1809), the business partner of James Watt (1736-1819)
Publication details: 
'Ordered to be printed 7th June 1819.'
£125.00
SKU: 9556

Folio, 3 pp. Bifolium. Full title lengthwise (because intended to be folded into packet) on reverse of second leaf: 'An Account of the Quantity of Copper Coined by Mr. Boulton, Distinguishing the Amount of Twopenny Pieces, Penny Pieces, Halfpence, and Farthings into which it was coined, with the Nominal Value of each: And also, A Statement of the Market Price of Copper At the Time the Contracts were made with Mr. Boulton.' Text clear and complete. On aged and creased paper. The first page, with '(95.)' in bottom left-hand corner, prints the transcript of a letter from 'M. Robinson Boulton' to William Speer of the Treasury Chamber. Because of 'a Misconception of my Clerk', Boulton has sent an inaccurate account to the Lords Commissioners. 'I have therefore caused another Account to be prepared, with those Amounts substituted, which I will thank you to put into their Lordships Hands, with this Explanation.' Page 2 carries, lengthwise, three tables, the first giving 'An Account of Copper Money coined at Soho Mint by M. Boulton'. And the second and third tables beneath the heading 'Summary'. The third pager carries a 'STATEMENT of the PRICES at which TOUGH CAKE COPPER was charged by the Subscription Copper-Smelting Companies at Birmingham to the Manufacturers, at the Dates of the Coinage Contracts, extracted from the printed Lists of Prices issued by them.' Five entries, between 1797 and 1807. Scarce: no copy in the British Library or on COPAC.