The Preston-Morley Library of Token Books

The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, [Deane, A., and others], Belfast Public Art Gallery and Museum: Catalogue of Irish Tokens, 17th, 18th and 19th Centuries, Belfast, 1913, 67pp, engraved illustrations in text. Publishers’ buff card cover; internally very fine, but binding staples missing (£20-30)

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The Preston-Morley Library of Token Books.

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This interesting pamphlet, Belfast Museum Publication no.36, was a joint compilation between the Belfast historian and token collector William Mayes, the curator, A. Deane, and the assistant curator, J.A.S. Stendall, who prepared the illustrations. The 494 tokens catalogued in it include the collections formed by the Belfast industrialist Edward Benn (1798-1874) and the Revd. John Grainger (1830-91)