Lot Archive

Lot

№ 593

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11 April 2012

Hammer Price:
£160

Gill, H.S., Seventeenth Century Tokens of Hampshire not described in Boyne’s work, London, 1883, 14pp; Anon, Collections of the Surrey Archaeological Society, vol. X, Part I, London, 1890, xxv + 149pp, illustrations in text, includes ‘The Trade Tokens of Surrey issued in the Seventeenth Century’ by George Williamson; Hooper, W., Surrey Seventeenth-Century Tokens, Guildford, 1943, 14pp, 1 plate; Frere, S.S. (ed), Surrey Archæological Collections, vol. LVI, Guildford, 1959, xi + 173pp, 24 plates, including ‘The Surrey Seventeenth-Century Trader’s Tokens’ by John and Nicholas Wetton (Manville 1054); Wetton, J.L. (ed), The Hampshire Seventeenth Century Traders’ Tokens, Lymington, 1964, 37pp, 22 plates, bound with Wetton, J.L., The Isle of Wight Seventeenth Century Traders’ Tokens, Lymington, 1962, 8pp, 2 plates (Manville 1095, 1117) [5]. First four in publishers’ bindings, second with front cover slightly torn; last in green cloth, extensively annotated in pencil and with two letters from Cyril Rowe to David Griffiths inserted £80-100

Provenance: Ex libris David Griffiths, with his bookplates