Auction Catalogue

16 March 2005

Starting at 9:30 AM

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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)

Grand Connaught Rooms  61 - 65 Great Queen St  London  WC2B 5DA

Lot

№ 1607

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16 March 2005

Hammer Price:
£250

Williamson, G.C., Trade Tokens Issued in the Seventeenth Century, London, 1889-91, 2 vols, xli + 1584pp + Addenda, Errata and Corrigenda, some engraved illustrations, copy no.166 [2]. Rebound in brown cloth, t.e.g.; with extensive pencil annotations by Mrs Emmy Cahn and some notes by other hands, the Kent section heavily annotated in ink by Robert Hogarth and used as a working copy by him, as such an important set for the student of the series (£100-150)

Provenance:
B.A.Seaby Ltd library
CNA Mailbid Sale XVII, 10 May 1991 (2302)
Robert Sharman, Eltham
Robert Hogarth.

Copy no.166 of an edition of 250, signed by the author