David Griffiths Reference Library of Token Books

Williamson, G.C., Trade Tokens Issued in the Seventeenth Century in England, Wales, and Ireland, By Corporations, Merchants, Tradesmen, Etc. A New and Revised Edition of William Boyne’s Work…With the Assistance of Some of the Principal Collectors of Tokens in the United Kingdom as Editors of Their Respective Counties. (Middlesex, London & Southwark). London, Elliot Stock, 1889. 8vo, tan half leather, marbled boards, 1925, t.e.g., 3 plates (x, xi, xii), xliv, 509pp (296+21+50+142). Numerous illustrations in the text, Notes and Queries cuttings and extracts. Made up by Ambrose Heal as his working copy for the wider London area, many photos illustrations letters to/from Heal. This book is the county extracts from copy no.153 of 250 copies on small paper of an edition of 300. Signed by the editor with Ambrose Heal’s bookplate. Spine title reads ‘Boyne’s Trade Tokens of XVII Century, London, Southwark & Middlesex. Williamson. 1880.’ Rare. £120-150

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The David Griffiths Reference Library of Token Literature.

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Provenance: Ex libris Sir Ambrose Heal; bt D.R.D. Edmunds