The Preston-Morley Library of Token Books

The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Royal Numismatic Society, Numismatic Chronicle, London, 5th Series, nos.1-2 [1921], nos.25-6, 28 [1927], no.42 [1931] [4]. Paper covers; first volume lacking a few endpages and second with some minor pencil corrections to the Buckinghamshire section, otherwise internally fine (£25-35)

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

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The 1927 volumes include the important two-part article ‘Unpublished seventeenth-century tokens in the collection of William Gilbert’ by W. Gilbert, incorporating three fine plates. Gilbert (c.1878-1944) started to dispose of the non-Essex portion of his countrywide collection soon after publication; the County Museum at Aylesbury bought his Buckinghamshire tokens, 57 pieces in all, for £40 in August 1929 (see lot 1023). The 1921 and 1931 volumes include articles on tokens by F.P. Barnard and T.O. Mabbott