British Tokens

Boyne, W., Tokens issued in the Seventeenth Century in England, Wales and Ireland, London, 1858, xxiii + 630pp, 42 engraved plates (Manville 403); Wetton, J.L., Seventeenth Century Tradesmens’ Tokens, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1969, 70pp, including illustrations (Manville 1205); Whittet, T.D., Somerset Apothecaries’ Tokens and their Issuers, Taunton, 1986, 7pp, photocopied rectos; Thompson, R.H., and Dickinson, M.J., Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles: The Norweb Collection…Part IV, Norfolk to Somerset, London, 1993, lvii + 218pp, 50 plates (Manville 1754); together with two folders containing a quantity of papers, lists and photocopies of Somerset 17th century token references, including relevant extracts from Toulmin’s History of Taunton (1791), Savage’s History of Taunton (1822), Boyne, Whittet, Thompson, etc, relevant hearth tax details and other records for Taunton, lists of Somerset tokens in the British and Salisbury Museums, lists of the original Henry Symonds collections of Somerset, Oxfordshire and Dorset with values, lists of the Gantz and Taffs collections of Somerset tokens, etc; together with a CD containing images of Somerset tokens and biographical research undertaken by Tim Scotney [Lot]. Wetton and Whittet in red and black cloth respectively, others in publishers’ bindings, first very fine and clean, with many pages uncut, the folders a very useful research group £150-200

Provenance: Ex libris David Young, additionally: first ex libris John Harris Gibson, Liverpool, Sotheby Auction, 22-6 June 1883, with his bookplate