British Tokens

Williamson, G.C., Trade Tokens issued in the Seventeenth Century, vol. I only, London, 1889, xliii + 804pp, engraved illustrations in text, copy no. 55 signed by the author (Manville 544); Williamson, G.C., Trade Tokens issued in the Seventeenth Century, 2 vols [1889-91], the 1970 Franklin reprint, xliii + 1584pp + addenda, engraved illustrations in text; Kent, G.C., British Metallic Coins and Tradesmen’s Tokens With Their Value From 1600-1912, 1st edn, Chichester, 1912, xxvii + 353pp (Manville 724) [4]. First in modern red library buckram, gilt spine, others in publishers’ bindings; last with interesting post-production amends including additional names of subscribers and suggested corrections to the style and presentation of some of the advertisements in the back £80-100

Provenance: Ex libris Alan Morris, with his bookplates, additionally: first de-accessed from Newcastle-upon-Tyne University Library.

The amends to the Kent volume show that the author received a personal letter from George V dated 20 February 1912, that the numismatic publisher L. Upcott Gill took 50 copies, that Kent, based in Brighton, and the Chichester dealer, Alfred Andrews, had combined their businesses and styled themselves Kent & Andrews, and that the Bayswater dealer W.H. Regan had sold his numismatic stock, valued at £400, to Kent in 1918