David Griffiths Reference Library of Token Books

Burn, J.H., A Descriptive Catalogue of the London Traders, Tavern, and Coffee-House Tokens Current in the Seventeenth Century; Presented to the Corporation Library by Henry Benjamin Hanbury Beaufoy. 2nd edn, London, Printed for the Use of the Members of the Corporation of the City of London, 1855. 8vo, green three-quarter morocco, heavily gilt. Portrait frontispiece and 3 other plates, xcv, 287pp. Extra-illustrated and interleaved with extensive contemporary newspaper cuttings tipped in and some manuscript notes, J.H. Burn’s copy with his signature. Unique (Manville 392) [2]. £400-500

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 J.H. Burn; B. Koorlander, Spink Auction 16, 9-10 July 1981, lot 89; bt Seaby July 1981.

See also lot 4005