David Griffiths Reference Library of Token Books

Waters, A.W. (ed), The Token Coinage of South London Issued in the 18th and 19th Centuries. With Introduction and Notes. 1st edn, Leamington Spa, Simmons and Waters, 1904. 8vo, contemporary red half morocco, gilt, top edge gilt, spine chipped. Frontispiece portrait, 2 plates (obverses and reverses of 27 tokens), facsimiles and other illustrations, xiv, 33pp. Frontispiece plate depicting Samuel Drummond’s watercolour drawing of Thomas Keys. Manuscript note in Waters’ hand reading ‘Presented to the Bermondsey Lib, 1934’. Inscribed on second free endpaper ‘To G.W. Gibberd from Arthur W. Waters, Feb. 1904’. Rare (Manville 629). £300-350

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 G.W. Gibberd, February 1904; A.W. Waters, 1910; Bermondsey Library 1934; J.R. Farnell, Sotheby Parke Bernet Auction (New York), 26 May 1982, lot 122.

Edition of 100 copies