Auction Catalogue

1 October 2014

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British Tokens

Washington Mayfair Hotel  London  W1J 5HE

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№ 628

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1 October 2014

Hammer Price:
£180

Williamson, G.C., Trade Tokens issued in the Seventeenth Century, 2 vols, London, 1889-91, xliii + 1584pp + addenda, engraved illustrations in text, copy no.48, signed by the author (Manville 544) [2]. Rebound in black quarter-morocco, spines gilt, t.e.g.; many extensive pencil annotations, amendments and additions throughout, with signatures of F. Pridmore, 1941, and D. Young, 1980, on inside front covers £150-200

Provenance: Ex libris Fred Pridmore, Taunton, and David Young.

These volumes were evidently in the possession of someone with a considerable countrywide collection in the 1890s, which is recorded within