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Trade tokens of British and American booksellers & bookmakers : with specimens of eleven original tokens struck especially for this book

Title
Trade tokens of British and American booksellers & bookmakers : with specimens of eleven original tokens struck especially for this book / compiled and edited by Henry Morris.
Publication
Newtown, Pa. : Bird & Bull Press, 1989.

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Additional Authors
  • Morris, Henry, 1925-2019.
  • Douglas, Kenneth
  • Longman, W. (William).
  • Bullen, Henry Lewis, 1857-1938.
Description
83 p. : ill., facsims.; 24 cm. +
Alternative Title
  • Bookseller's tokens.
  • Trade tokens of British and American booksellers and bookmakers.
Subjects
Note
  • Token issued by J. Smyth, Padsole Paper Mill, Maidstone, England (1795) described, p. 15; history of the mill, p. 16; illustrated, p. [21].
  • List of "Participants" for whom the 11 original tokens were struck: p. 79-82. Included are G.T. Mandl (G.T. Mandl Group, Fourstones Paper Mill, Hexham, England), papermakers, and Iris Nevins (Sussex, N.J.), paper marbler; their tokens depict, respectively, a vatman and a marbler at work.
  • Spine title: Bookseller's tokens.
  • Two facsims. (p. [37-38]) on folded leaf; 1 facsim. on folded sheet, inserted.
  • "British tokens" (p. 13-[38]) incorporates excerpts from: Tokens of the eighteenth century connected with booksellers & bookmakers (authors, printers, publishers, engravers and paper makers) / by W. Longman. London, 1916.
  • Appendix (p. 57-77) contains "Printers' avocations: medal collecting," article by Henry Lewis Bullen, reprinted from the Printing art, v. 31 (April 1918).
  • Errata slip laid in; erratum slip relating to binder mounted on colophon leaf.
  • Binding, publisher's, by Barbara Blumenthal, of quarter light blue morocco and paper boards; book and folder issued in slipcase.
  • In folder: 11 tokens : copper (.95) and zinc ; diam. 29 mm. "Made under the supervision of Meyer Katz at the Unity Mint in Ambler, Pa., from dies engraved by Kenneth Douglas"--Colophon (in book). Nine dated 1988; 1 dated 1989; 1 undated. Inserted in die-cut cardboard sheet mounted inside folder.
Bibliography (note)
  • Bibliography: p. 83.
Call Number
Schlosser 935
OCLC
  • 20476893
  • NYPG90-B16919
Title
Trade tokens of British and American booksellers & bookmakers : with specimens of eleven original tokens struck especially for this book / compiled and edited by Henry Morris.
Imprint
Newtown, Pa. : Bird & Bull Press, 1989.
Bibliography
Bibliography: p. 83.
Local Note
No. 15 of 300 copies printed.
Prospectus (1 folded sheet ([3] p.)) laid in.
Local Subject
Tokens -- Specimens.
Papermaking (in numismatics).
Added Author
Morris, Henry, 1925-2019.
Douglas, Kenneth.
Longman, W. (William). Tokens of the eighteenth century connected with booksellers & bookmakers. Selections. 1989.
Bullen, Henry Lewis, 1857-1938. Printers' avocations: medal collecting. 1989.
Added Title
Bookseller's tokens.
Trade tokens of British and American booksellers and bookmakers.
Research Call Number
Schlosser 935
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