The Preston-Morley Library of Token Books

The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Buckinghamshire Archaeological Society, Records of Buckinghamshire, Aylesbury, vol.4, no.3 [1872], vol.10, no.3 [1912], vol.12, nos.1 and 6 [1927, 1932], vol.13, pt 4 [1937], vol.14, pt 1 [1941], vol.15, pt 3 [1949], vol.18, pt 2 [1967]; together with a reprint of the article by G. Berry, ‘Notes on Seventeenth-Century Token Issuers of Chesham’, from vol.18, pt 5 [1971]. Publishers’ bindings, some early parts with pages mostly uncut; a good group of token-related publications for the county, several with illustrations (£40-50)

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

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Provenance:
All but the last bt Wethereds [Aylesbury] 1971.

The journals contain articles by or on Browne Willis, Buckinghamshire bell-founders, William Crouch on the Ratcliff collection acquisition, Fenny Stratford in the 17th century, Edwin Hollis on Colnbrook and Horton tokens, plus unrecorded tokens of Chesham and Wendover, an obituary of Hollis (curator at Aylesbury from 1908-41), and George Berry on High Wycombe tokens