Davis, W.J. and Waters, A.W., Tickets and Passes of Great Britain and Ireland Struck or Engraved on Metal, Ivory, etc. for use at Theatres, Public Gardens, Shows, Exhibitions, Clubs, Societies, Schools and Colleges; also Truck Tickets, Colliery Checks, Railway Passes, Gambling, Lottery and Racing Tickets, etc., Described with Occasional Notes. 1st edn, Leamington Spa, Privately printed at the Courier Press, 1922. 4to, original russet cloth. Fine autotype plate, viii, 347, (7) pp. Copy no.5, signed by Arthur Waters and signed in January 1922 by F.S. Cokayne on first free end paper. Cokayne’s working copy, with extensive additions and his collection checkmarked. A very desirable volume. Unique (Manville 827). £600-800

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 F.S. Cokayne; bt Spink July 1984.

Edition of 150 copies