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, original brown cloth, the covers embossed in blind. Portrait frontispiece and 3 other plates, xcv, 287pp. With extensive ms notes and ephemera by Ambrose Heal, Burn and others (Manville 392). £90-120

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, Beaconsfield; bt D.R.D. Edmunds December 1981