Auction Catalogue

6 October 2010

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David Griffiths Reference Library of Token Books

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 4150

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6 October 2010

Hammer Price:
£290

Larwood, J. and Hotten, J.C., The History of Signboards. London, J.C. Hotten, 1867. Large 4to, green quarter-leather, red boards, t.e.g. viii + 536pp, large paper copy with 72 extra illustrations. Signature of Stanley Baldwin on first free endpaper and some pencil amends in margins, binding somewhat scruffy but internally clean and an interesting copy by association £200-250

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 S. Baldwin; bt D.R.D. Edmunds November 1988.

Edition of 100 copies. Stanley Baldwin (1867-1947), prime minister of the UK 1923-4, 1924-9 and 1935-7