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Trade tokens of British and American booksellers & bookmakers : with specimens of eleven original tokens struck especially for this book
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- Creator
- compiled and edited by Henry Morris
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- Bookseller's tokens
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- Books
- Language
- English
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- Publication
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- Newtown, PA : Bird & Bull Press, 1989
- Physical Details
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- 83 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm + 11 tokens
- OCLC
- ocm20476893
- Limited ed. of 300 copies.
- "Three hundred copies of this book have been printed on French mouldmade Arches text paper ... The text was composed in Van Dijck types by Othmar Peters at Mackenzie-Harris Corp. in San Francisco, and the book was bound by R.C. Lohwasser in Philadelphia. The tokens were made under the supervision of Meyer Katz at the Unity Mint in Ambler, Pa., from dies engraved by Kenneth Douglas in Olive Branch, Miss. The composition of the tokens is 95% copper and 5% tin and zinc, the same as was the U.S. cent prior to 1982."--Colophon.
- Errata slip inserted: "This book was not bound by Lohwasser, but by Barbara Blumenthal in Northampton, Mass."
- Facsimile of a letter (1 sheet 23 x 31 cm. folded to 23 x 16 cm.) laid in book.
- Prospectus laid in slipcase.
- Tokens in folder inserted in slipcase.
- Bibliography: page 83.