British Coins

Wake, H.T. [Fritchley, Derby], Monthly Catalogue of Books, Coins, Antiquities &c. on Sale, New Series, nos. 1-71, Old and New Series combined, 201-261 [April 1887-June 1896], complete. Modern maroon cloth, ribbed spines, t.e.g.; internally very fine and clean, a fascinating read in good longhand script, plentifully illustrated with engravings of many types of ancient and English coins, tokens, antiquities, etc £100-150

Henry Thomas Wake (1831-1914), of Wingfield Park, near Fritchley, Derby, was a bookseller and dealer in antiquities who also traded in “Old English, Anglo-Saxon, Norman, Anglo-Gallic Coins, Ancient MSS, Early Printed English Books, Autograph Letters…Early Quaker Literature…” Wake, a Quaker, was born at Whittlebury, Northamptonshire. He married Lydia Carter, a Banbury girl, in 1853, and moved to Cockermouth where he carried on the trade of bookseller while bringing up 8 children. Some time after the death of his wife in 1875 Wake moved his family to Fritchley, where he remarried and, apart from trading in books and antiquities, ran the Chestnut Bank Friends School at Crich