David Griffiths Reference Library of Token Books

Waters, A.W., Notes Gleaned from Contemporary Literature, &c. Respecting the Issuers of the Eighteenth Century Tokens. Struck for the County of Middlesex. Arranged According to Atkins’s Tradesmen’s Tokens. 1st edn, Leamington Spa, Simmons and Waters, 1906. 8vo, original brown cloth, gilt, top edge gilt. viii, (4), 98pp, fine frontispiece plate of tokens, 5 other plates. Copy no.2, signed by the author. Inscribed on second free endpaper ‘To G.W. Gibberd from Arthur W. Waters, Leamington Spa, 1906’; A5 receipted note to Mr Summers for Middlesex Token Notes, March 13 1906, tipped-in. Rare (Manville 654). £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; J.R. Farnell, Sotheby Parke Bernet Auction (New York), 26 May 1982, lot 119.

Edition of 200 copies