NUMISMATIC BOOKS, ETC 469
NOBLE NUMISMATICS PTY (Melbourne), Sale 58B, The W.J. Noble Collection of [18th and early 19th century] British Tokens, 7-8 July 1998, 1,992 lots, profusely illustrated, errata sheet and extra illustrations tipped-in; Sale 61B, The W.J. Noble Collection, British Tickets and Passes, World Tokens, 3-4 August 1999, 1,834 lots, profusely illustrated, errata sheet tipped-in; Sale 64B, The W.J. Noble Collection, World Communion Tokens, British and Foreign Coin Weights, 11 July 2000, 518 lots [3]. All mint copies with PRLs; a very attractive set of this important collection
£80-100
470
THOMPSON, R.H. [with DICKINSON, M.J.], Sylloge of Coins of the British Isles: 43, 44, 49, The Norweb Collection, Tokens of the British Isles, 1575-1750, Part III, Hampshire to Lincolnshire, London, 1992, liii + 216pp, 51 plates (Manville 1734); Part IV, Norfolk to Somerset, London, 1993, lvii + 218pp, 50 plates (Manville 1754); Part VI, Wiltshire to Yorkshire, Ireland to Wales, London, 1999, lxxi + 264pp, 43 plates (Manville 1869); together with a complete set of page proofs for SCBI 46, Part V, Staffordshire to Westmorland, London, 1996, lxii + 220pp, 51 plates (Manville 1818) [Lot]. First three in publishers’ blue cloth, mint
£30-50
471
WILLIAMSON, G.C., Trade Tokens issued in the Seventeenth Century, vol. I only, London, 1889, xliii + 804pp, engraved illustrations in text, copy no. 55 signed by the author (Manville 544); WILLIAMSON, G.C., Trade Tokens issued in the Seventeenth Century, 2 vols [1889-91], the 1970 Franklin reprint, xliii + 1584pp + addenda, engraved illustrations in text; KENT, G.C., British Metallic Coins and Tradesmen’s Tokens With Their Value From 1600-1912, 1st edn, Chichester, 1912, xxvii + 353pp (Manville 724) [4]. First in modern red library buckram, gilt spine, others in publishers’ bindings; last with interesting post-production amends including additional names of subscribers and suggested corrections to the style and presentation of some of the advertisements in the back
£80-100
Provenance: Ex libris Alan Morris, with his bookplates, additionally: first de-accessed from Newcastle-upon-Tyne University Library.
The amends to the Kent volume show that the author received a personal letter from George V dated 20 February 1912, that the numismatic publisher L. Upcott Gill took 50 copies, that Kent, based in Brighton, and the Chichester dealer, Alfred Andrews, had combined their businesses and styled themselves Kent & Andrews, and that the Bayswater dealer W.H. Regan had sold his numismatic stock, valued at £400, to Kent in 1918
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