David Griffiths Reference Library of Token Books

Dalton, R., The Silver Token-Coinage Mainly Issued Between 1811 and 1812 Described and Illustrated. 1st edn, Leamington Spa, A.W. Waters, 1922. Small 4to, contemporary brown half leather, green cloth boards, title gilt. viii, 63pp. Copy no.111, signed by Dalton. Hamer’s copy with photograph and letter from Dalton’s secretary regarding Dalton’s death and newspaper cuttings of death notice and funeral from the Western Daily Press, June 1922 (Manville 826). £200-250

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 S.H. Hamer; bt Seaby September 1980.

Edition of 200 copies. Waters’ name and address are not on title page, which has led the vendor to speculate whether copies 1-100 were allocated to the publisher and those with numbers from 101-200 to the author