Barton, D.B., A Historical Survey of The Mines and Mineral Railways of East Cornwall and West Devon. Truro, D. Bradford Barton Ltd, 1964. 8vo, black and gold card covers. 102pp, (2), text illustrations, signature of Roy Hawkins, August 1969; Stanton, Yolanda C., and Todd, N.B., Devon Tavern Tokens. Exeter, Exeter Industrial Archaeology Group, 1982. 8vo, buff card, 36 plates, 181pp, text illustrations. Printed compliment slip for Prof. Walter Minchinton, who wrote the preface, inserted (Manville 1484); Minnitt, S.C., Durnell, J., and Gunstone, A.J.H., Somerset Public House Tokens. Bridgwater, Somerset County Council Library Service, 1985. 8vo, lime green card. 29 plates on 15pp, 144pp, photographs of tokens in text. Inscribed on title page ‘To Roy, with my very best wishes, John’ and marked on first free endpaper ‘A present from John Durnell’. Loosely inserted is a letter to David Griffiths from David Young, who collaborated with the authors (Manville 1551); Durnell, J., An Introduction to Gloucestershire Tavern Checks, np, nd (1985), A4 typescript, 13pp [4]. £40-50

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

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Provenance: First ex libris R.N.P. Hawkins, Glendining Auction, 16 March 1988, lot 481 (part)