David Griffiths Reference Library of Token Books

Temple, J., Hull Tokens and Coinage. Contemporary large format photograph album, green half morocco, buff title label on spine, gilt, back worn (rebacked and binding restored 1998). Newspaper cuttings from the Hull Pocket, 27 July 1883 to 17 November 1883 (8 issues) mounted in. Two other related newspaper cuttings tipped in at front. Signed ‘William Sykes, Cottingham, 1903’ on first free endpaper. Cut into reverse is The Johnson Manuscripts – A Defence. Small 8vo, 28pp, card covers. Reprinted from the Eastern Morning News, Hull, 1893/4. Very rare [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 W. Sykes, Spink Auction 51, 16 April 1986, lot 322