British Tokens

Burn, J.H., A Descriptive Catalogue of the London Traders, Tavern, and Coffee-House Tokens Current in the Seventeenth Century, 1st edn, London, 1853, xlviii + 237pp, 2 engraved plates (Manville 379); Smith, A., A Catalogue of the Town and Trade Tokens of Lincolnshire Issued in the Seventeenth Century, Horncastle, 1931, 51pp, 15 plates, fully interleaved (Manville 905) [2]. Publishers’ bindings; first rebacked, with signature of Thomas Barkley on title page and some foxing, second fine and clean £60-80

Provenance: Ex libris Alan Morris, with his bookplates, additionally: first ex libris John Basil Lowder Tolhurst, Beckenham (†1961) and John G. Tolhurst, with their bookplates, second ex libris Harry Frederick Comfort Crookshank, 1st Viscount Crookshank of Gainsborough (1893-1961), Conservative politician and MP for Gainsborough 1924-56, with his bookplate