Auction Catalogue

6 October 2010

Starting at 1:00 PM

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David Griffiths Reference Library of Token Books

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

Lot

№ 4038

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6 October 2010

Hammer Price:
£250

Bidgood, W., Somerset Trade Tokens of the Seventeenth Century, and of the period from 1787 to 1817. Taunton, T.M. Hawkins, nd (?1887). Reprinted from the 1886 proceedings of the Somersetshire Archaeological and Natural History Society, vol. xxxii. 4to, original green cloth boards, spine repaired, white paper title label on spine with ms ink title. 42pp. Copy no.4, numbered and initialled by the author. Extremely rare. First free end paper signed by Reginald Barncott who was a member in 1886 (Manville 529). £150-200

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 R. Barncott; bt Seaby.

Edition of 10 copies