Ancient, British and World Coins and Banknotes, to include the Professor Jeffrey P Mass Collection of English Short Cross Coins, 1180-1247 (Part II) and British Medals from the James Spencer Collection (Part III)

Boyne, W., Tokens issued in the Seventeenth Century in England, Wales and Ireland, London, 1858, 2 vols, xxiii + 630pp, 42 engraved plates; interleaved with extensive annotations in a neat hand by J.S. Smallfield, with cuttings on tokens from the Gentleman’s Magazine by B[enjamin] N[ightingale] pasted or bound-in; bound with Franks, A.W., London Tokens of the Seventeenth Century, 23pp, also interleaved with extensive annotations [2]. Original green half-leather, ribbed spine, decorated endpapers, both volumes signed John S. Smallfield London 1858 on first free endpaper, vol.I title page additionally signed John Stone Smallfield, London 1858, from the Author; extremities of bindings a trifle rubbed and inside front of vol.II repaired, some plates with minor foxing, otherwise fine and very rare, an important set for the student of the series (£200-300)

Provenance:
Ex libris John Stone Smallfield, 1858, from the author
Alfred J.V. Radford, Malvern
Robert Hogarth.

John Stone Smallfield (c. 1814-82), 43 St Paul’s road, Camden square, London, was one of the most enthusiastic collectors of 17th century tokens in his day; these volumes, to which he was an original subscriber, are checkmarked with the tokens that were in his collection and thus form a unique record. Smallfield was also in contact with other collectors, a list of whom appears inside; he also records details of tokens in their collections not in Boyne. Undoubtedly vol.I contains the information Smallfield used to compile his list, ‘London Tokens of the Seventeenth Century’, published in NC 1870, pp.177-99