Coins, Tokens and Historical Medals

Ashraf, P.M., and others (eds), Essays in honour of William Gallacher: Supplement, Thomas Spence, the history of Crusonia and other writings, Berlin, 1966, 354pp, illustrations in text; Rudkin, Olive D., Thomas Spence and his connections, [1927], New York, 1966, 256pp; Dickinson, H.T., The Political Works of Thomas Spence, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1982, xviii + 154pp; Ashraf, P.M., The Life and Times of Thomas Spence, Newcastle-upon-Tyne, 1983, 212pp, 20 plates, dj; Chase, M., The People’s Farm: English Radical Agrarianism 1775-1840, Oxford, 1988, vi + 221pp, dj; McCalman, I., Radical Underworld: Prophets, revolutionaries and pornographers in London, 1795-1840, Cambridge, 1988, xvi + 338pp, illustrations in text, dj; Thompson, N., The Real Rights of Man, London, 1998, viii + 168pp; Wood, M., Radical Satire and Print Culture 1790-1822, Oxford, 1994, xviii + 318pp, illustrations in text, dj; Barrell, J., Exhibition Extraordinary!! Radical Broadsides of the mid 1790s, Nottingham, 2001, xviii + 84pp, illustrations in text; together with a photocopy of Waters’ Trial of Thomas Spence in 1801 [copy no. 66 of 75 originals] [10]. Last in red cloth, others in publishers’ bindings; all very fine copies and a good group of Thomas Spence material £70-90

Provenance: Ex libris Robert Thompson, and sold for the benefit of the British Numismatic Society, additionally: last ex libris Peter Seaby and CNA Mailbid Sale XVII, 5 October 1991, lot 2385