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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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- Description
- 83 p. : ill., facsims.; 24 cm. +
- Alternative Title
- Bookseller's tokens.
- Trade tokens of British and American booksellers and bookmakers.
- Subjects
- Papermaking (in numismatics)
- Papermaking > In art
- Booksellers and bookselling > Collectibles > Great Britain
- Papermaking in art
- Booksellers and bookselling > Collectibles > United States
- Tokens > Great Britain
- Tokens > United States
- Tokens > Specimens
- Book industries and trade > Collectibles > Great Britain
- Papermaking > England > Maidstone > History
- Papermaking > Collectibles > England
- Book industries and trade > Collectibles > United States
- 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