Williamson, G.C., Trade Tokens Issued in the Seventeenth Century in England, Wales, and Ireland, By Corporations, Merchants, Tradesmen, Etc. A New and Revised Edition of William Boyne’s Work. Special Copy of Ireland. Cover title ‘Irish 17th Century Tokens – Boyne’. London, Elliot Stock, 1891. 8vo, olive half morocco, marbled boards and endpapers, oblong spine label, t.e.g., original blue card wrappers bound in at back. pp.1351-1451, interleaved. Designated on the front wrapper as ‘Special Copy. Printed for Private Distribution only. With the Editor’s Compliments’. Loosely inserted is offprint from The Journal of The Royal Historical and Archaeological Association of Ireland, Vol. V, Nos. 46 and 50 (April 1881 and 1882), by Alderman Day, the latter a piece on Cork trade tokens. 8vo, blue paper wrappers. £100-150

This lot was sold as part of a special collection, The David Griffiths Reference Library of Token Literature.

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Provenance: Ex libris W.C. Sanders; bt G.F. Kolbe