Communion Tokens: Their Origin, History, And Use. With A Treatise On The Relation Of The Sacrament To The Vitality And Revivals Of The Church
McWhorter-Tenney, Mary (1936)
Book Summary
12mo, original navy cloth, gilt. Frontispiece portrait of the author; 195, (13) pages; 2 plates depicting tokens. Near fine. Only the third copy we have ever handled of this rare work on the subject. We recently sold a copy with the very rare dust-jacket for $700 hammer in our Sale 162. An example in the John J. Ford, Jr. Library brought a hammer price of $650 in 2004—and that copy was lacking the jacket. The author was Assistant Curator of the Historical Foundation of the Presbyterian and Reformed Churches. Her work explores the topic more from a religious than a numismatic angle, providing an enormous amount of contextual and historical information that is generally lacking from numismatic works on the subject. Tenney’s book covers the tokens of France, England, Scotland, Ireland, Holland, and the United States, and is a valuable contribution to the topic. Clain-Stefanelli 13279.