British Tokens, Tickets and Passes

Burn, J.H., A Descriptive Catalogue of the London Traders, Tavern, and Coffee-House Tokens Current in the Seventeenth Century, presented to the Corporation Library by Henry Benjamin Hanbury Beaufoy, 2nd edn, London, 1855, xcv + 287pp, 3 engraved plates (Manville 392); Stainsfield, C.W., Descriptive Catalogue of Australian Tradesmen’s Tokens, 2nd edn, London, 1888, iii + 74pp, engraved illustrations in text; Atkins, J., The Tradesmen’s Tokens of the Eighteenth Century, London, 1892, vi + 415pp (Manville 555); Longman, W., Tokens of the Eighteenth Century connected with Booksellers & Bookmakers, London, 1916, 90pp, 3 plates, engraved illustrations (Manville 762); Bell, R.C., Specious Tokens and those struck for General Circulation, 1784-1804, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1968, xvii + 257pp, illustrations in text, dj (Manville 1165) [5]. Publishers’ bindings; first and third with defects to bindings £60-£80

First ex libris James Comerford (1806-81), with his bookplate; Sotheby Auction, 16-20 November 1881, lot 408