Received my "Coinage of Augustus St. Gaudens/Morse Collection" book--great, but a glaring

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Today I received my copy of the "Coinage of Augustus Saint-Gaudens, as Illustrated by the Phillip Morse Collection" book from Heritage. The book looks great. It is printed in full color, and definitely of top quality. The binding is nice and tight. The full color dust jacket (which I hate dust jackets, by the way) protects the black hard cover volume, with attractive gold letters. The book is 251 pages.

The book consists of a Foreward, written by Mark van Winkle and Jim Halperin. There is also a chapter entitled, "The Sculptor, the President, and the Making of a Classic American Coinage", which I assume is the "Roosevelt/Saint Gaudens story". After that, the book gives a date by date analysis of the coin, and gives history and background information for each date and mintmark. Each chapter shows a coin that was either in the Morse collection or the Kutasi collection. I have not read the book yet, but it looks great.

As for the glaring ommission--- to Heritage, I say shame, shame, shame. I checked the bibliography in the back of the book, and it does not list Roger Burdette's Renaissance of American Coinage book. Burdette is the preeminent researcher of our time, and I am at a loss to understand why the Burdette book was not referenced. Although Burdette was referred to in the foreward, his book should also be listed in the bibliography.