The Preston-Morley Library of Token Books

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Lot 1010, 19 Jun 02

The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Adams, S., The Essex Collection of post 1820 tokens, tallies & medallions, np, 1993, 296pp, profusely illustrated throughout, copy no.104. A fine copy of this useful treatise (£15-20)

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Lot 1011, 19 Jun 02

The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Akerman, J.Y., Tradesmen’s Tokens, current in London and its vicinity between the years 1648 and 1672, London, 1849, viii + 257pp, 8 engraved plates. Lacking binding; the whole book extensively annotated and amended by Preston-Morley as a direct copy of the volume of this reference owned by J.H. Burn, including a transcript of a letter from Benjamin Nightingale to Robert Boyne, 2 Dec. 1847, which...

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Lot 1012, 19 Jun 02

The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Bell, R.C., Commercial Coins 1787-1804, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1963, 319pp, illustrated throughout. Publishers’ blue cloth and boards, a clean copy, internally fine, with d.j. [this slightly stained]; signed by the author, September 1976, on inside front cover (£30-40)

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Lot 1013, 19 Jun 02

The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Bell, R.C., Copper Commercial Coins 1811-1819, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1964, xvii + 238pp, illustrated throughout. Publishers’ red cloth; an extremely fine and fresh copy, with d.j.; signed by the author, September 1996, on inside front cover (£30-40)

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Lot 1014, 19 Jun 02

The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Bell, R.C., Tradesmen’s Tickets and Private Tokens, 1785-1819, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1966, xii + 315pp, illustrated throughout. Publishers’ blue cloth; an extremely fine and fresh copy, with d.j. [this a trifle scuffed]; signed by the author, September 1996, on inside front cover (£30-40)

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Lot 1015, 19 Jun 02

The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Bell, R.C., Specious Tokens and those struck for General Circulation, 1784-1804, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1968, xvii + 257pp, illustrated throughout. Publishers’ blue cloth; an extremely fine and fresh copy, with d.j., valuation sheet tipped-in; signed by the author, September 1996, on inside front cover (£30-40)

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Lot 1016, 19 Jun 02

The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Bell, R.C., Unofficial Farthings 1820-1870, London, 1975, Introduction + 248pp, profusely illustrated throughout. Publishers’ light tan cloth, virtually as new, with d.j.; now scarce (£20-30)

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Lot 1017, 19 Jun 02

The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Bell, R.C., The Building Medalets of Kempson and Skidmore, 1796-1797, Newcastle upon Tyne, 1978, 183pp, illustrated throughout. Publishers’ blue rexine; an extremely fine and fresh copy, with d.j.; signed by the author, Northampton, September 1996, on inside front cover (£20-30)

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Lot 1018, 19 Jun 02

The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Bell, R.C., Whitmore, J., and Sweeny, J.O., Bell’s Unofficial Farthings: A Supplement, Malvern, 1994, viii + 237pp, 43 plates. A fine copy of this definitive reference; signed ‘Happy Hunting’ by R.C. Bell, September 1996, on inside front cover (£20-30)

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Lot 1019, 19 Jun 02

The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Berry, G., and Morley, P., A Revised Survey of the Seventeenth-Century Tokens of Buckinghamshire, London, 1973, pp.96-125, 2 plates. Publishers’ blue card covers; some minor amendments to text by Preston-Morley and signed by him on first free endpaper, otherwise a very fine copy (£15-25)

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Lot 1020, 19 Jun 02

The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Boon, G.C., Welsh Tokens of the 17th Century, Cardiff, 1973, 144pp. With some neat amendments to the text by Preston-Morley, otherwise a fine copy of this important reference; together with the 4pp Supplement, 1976, signed by the author, tipped-in (£25-35)

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Lot 1021, 19 Jun 02

The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Boyne, W., Tokens issued in the Seventeenth Century in England, Wales and Ireland, London, 1858, xxiii + 630pp, 42 engraved plates. Original green decorated cloth, spine gilt; internally complete, but four plates loose and some plates heavily foxed, spine somewhat fragile; signed by Manton on title page (£40-60)

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Lot 1022, 19 Jun 02

The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, British & Irish Tokens Journal, Dublin, vol.1, no.1 [August 1980], iii + 50pp, illustrations in text. Publishers’ blue card covers, a very fine copy, now rare; a handwritten draft of Preston-Morley’s review of the publication for BNJ tipped-in (£15-25)

Sold for £75

Lot 1023, 19 Jun 02

The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Buckinghamshire: The original notebook recording the collection of Bucks 17th century tokens formed by Sir Ambrose Heal, catalogued by Edwin Hollis, September 1934, including prices paid and noting which specimens were given to Wycombe Museum, December 1945; together with seven ALS from Edwin Hollis to Heal, dated 1927-34, and one ALS from J.O. Manton to Hollis, 12 April 1927, all relating to Bucks...

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Lot 1024, 19 Jun 02

The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Buckinghamshire Archaeological Society, Records of Buckinghamshire, Aylesbury, vol.4, no.3 [1872], vol.10, no.3 [1912], vol.12, nos.1 and 6 [1927, 1932], vol.13, pt 4 [1937], vol.14, pt 1 [1941], vol.15, pt 3 [1949], vol.18, pt 2 [1967]; together with a reprint of the article by G. Berry, ‘Notes on Seventeenth-Century Token Issuers of Chesham’, from vol.18, pt 5 [1971]. Publishers’ bindings,...

Sold for £130

Lot 1025, 19 Jun 02

The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Christie’s [London], Catalogue of Ancient, Foreign and English Coins and Medallions, including the D.L. Cornell Collection of Norfolk Tokens, 18 February 1986, an extensively annotated catalogue, with all prices and buyers’ names; together with an album containing enlarged photographs of all the 17th century tokens in the collection alphabetically from Aylsham to Mileham [Lot]. A useful referen...

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Lot 1026, 19 Jun 02

The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Conder, J., An Arrangement of Provincial Coins, Tokens and Medalets issued in Great Britain, Ireland and the Colonies, London, 1798, address, preface [by J. Wright], 330pp + errata page, 3 engraved plates. Later red half-morocco, back gilt, with integral bookmark; signed Charles I. Bushnell on first free endpaper and some light pencil checkmarks relating to Bushnell’s collection in text, also sig...

Sold for £210

Lot 1027, 19 Jun 02

The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, The ‘Conder’ Token Newsletter, vol.I, nos.1-4; vol.II, nos.1-2, Maple Grove, Minnesota, August 1996-November 1997; The ‘Conder’ Token Collector’s Journal, vol.III, nos.1-4; vol.IV, nos.1-4; vol.V, nos.1-4; vol.VI, nos.1-4; vol.VII, no.1, Maple Grove and St Paul, Minnesota, March 1998-Spring 2002 [23]. A very fine and complete run of this lively publication, including many interesting arti...

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Lot 1028, 19 Jun 02

The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Costello, T.B., and Blake, M.J., Trade Tokens of the County of Galway in the Seventeenth Century, with Notes on the Issuers, Galway, 1911, 17pp, including 5 engraved plates. Green paper cover cut at bottom, but internally fine and fresh, rare (£20-30)

Sold for £85

Lot 1029, 19 Jun 02

The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Cotton, W.A., The Coins, Tokens and Medals of Worcestershire, Bromsgrove, 1885, [xii] + 147pp, rectos, engraved plates and a few engraved illustrations in text, copy no.56. Publishers’ cream boards, gilt tooling at edges; binding rather rubbed, but internally very fine and fresh; with signature of A. Cotton on inside front cover (£90-120)

Sold for £230

Lot 1030, 19 Jun 02

The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Cox, B.G., The Seventeenth Century Token Coinage of Blandford Forum, Dorset, Blandford, 1983, 9pp rectos, illustrations; Coles, P., The Wimborne Trade Tokens 1657-1670, 23pp, engraved illustrations; Udal, J.S., Dorsetshire Folk-Lore, 2nd edn, St Peter Port, 1970, and 3rd edn, Exeter, 1989; together with an exercise book containing a detailed record of the British Museum’s collection of Dorset tok...

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Lot 1031, 19 Jun 02

The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Cox, N. and A., The Tokens, Checks, Metallic Tickets, Passes and Tallies of Wales, 1800-1993, Cardiff, 1994, 283pp, illustrated in text. A virtually mint copy (£20-30)

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Lot 1032, 19 Jun 02

The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, Davis, W.J., The Nineteenth Century Token Coinage [London, 1904], xlvii + 284pp, 15 plates and extra illustrations in text. The 1969 Seaby reprint; publishers’ blue cloth, a very fine copy (£40-60)

Sold for £80

Lot 1033, 19 Jun 02

The Peter Preston-Morley Library of Token Books, [Deane, A., and others], Belfast Public Art Gallery and Museum: Catalogue of Irish Tokens, 17th, 18th and 19th Centuries, Belfast, 1913, 67pp, engraved illustrations in text. Publishers’ buff card cover; internally very fine, but binding staples missing (£20-30)

Sold for £95

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