David Griffiths Reference Library of Token Books

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…With the Assistance of Some of the Principal Collectors of Tokens in the United Kingdom as Editors of Their Respective Counties. London, Elliot Stock, 1889. Special copy of the county of Buckinghamshire. 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. Only two copies of the Buckinghamshire section of Williamson’s Boyne were printed off. £250-350

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 Sir Ambrose Heal, 1925; P.J. Preston-Morley, Part II, DNW Auction 54, 19 June 2002, lot 1078