British Tokens, Tickets and Passes, Wiltshire Coins and Paranumismatica

Davis, W.J., The Nineteenth Century Token Coinage, London, 1904, xlvii + 277pp, 33 fine plates, fully interleaved in 2 volumes, copy no.19 (Manville 623) [2]. Publisher’s brown quarter morocco, gilt, t.e.g.; spines rubbed and some foxing to endpapers, otherwise internally very fine and fresh, one of the most attractive copies available to commerce and with a fine Yorkshire pedigree £300-£500

Provenance: Ex libris Samuel Henry Hamer, Halifax, Glendining Auction, 26-8 November 1930, lot 769 (part), with his bookplates; James Digby Firth, Headingley, with his bookplates; John Akins.

It is believed that most (if not all) of the first 20 copies were the fully interleaved editions, of which several survive. A newspaper cutting announcing the death of the Manchester collector and author D.T. Batty tipped-in opposite his image, between pages 90 and 91