The Preston-Morley Library of Token Books

The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Williamson, G.C., Trade Tokens Issued in the Seventeenth Century: special copy of the county of Buckinghamshire, London, 1889, 10pp, original blue card covers; bound with Ratcliff, O., XVII Century Tokens of Buckinghamshire, Olney, 1900; being a typescript list by A. Heal on 65 rectos [2]. Decorated half morocco, ribbed spine, titles in gilt, t.e.g.; the whole interleaved, with copious notes and additions by Sir Ambrose Heal, several press cuttings featuring letters from Edwin Hollis, Francis Colmer and others relating to finds of 17th century tokens in the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s either pasted- or tipped-in; an historic and unique Bucks token volume (£90-120)

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

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Provenance:
Ex libris Sir Ambrose Heal, 1925.

Only two copies of the Buckinghamshire section of Williamson’s Boyne were printed off. Who the original recipient of this copy was one can only speculate, for the only person known to Williamson with an interest in tokens of the county at that time was Alfred Heneage Cocks, who contributed the notes on p.56 attributed to ‘G.C.W.’ The Ratcliff list was extracted by Heal from Ratcliff’s History and Antiquities of the Newport Pagnell Hundreds