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Rare Work on Communion Tokens
Tenney, Mary McWhorter. COMMUNION TOKENS: THEIR ORIGIN, HISTORY, AND USE. WITH A TREATISE ON THE RELATION OF THE SACRAMENT TO THE VITALITY AND REVIVALS OF THE CHURCH. Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House, 1936. 12mo, original navy cloth, gilt; printed jacket. Frontispiece portrait of the author; 195, (13) pages; 2 plates depicting tokens. Jacket with only a very small nick near the top of spine; very nearly fine. Only the second copy we have ever handled of this rare work on the subject. An example in the John J. Ford, Jr. Library brought a price of $650 plus the premium 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.
Tenney, Mary McWhorter. COMMUNION TOKENS: THEIR ORIGIN, HISTORY, AND USE. WITH A TREATISE ON THE RELATION OF THE SACRAMENT TO THE VITALITY AND REVIVALS OF THE CHURCH. Grand Rapids: Zondervan Publishing House, 1936. 12mo, original navy cloth, gilt; printed jacket. Frontispiece portrait of the author; 195, (13) pages; 2 plates depicting tokens. Jacket with only a very small nick near the top of spine; very nearly fine. Only the second copy we have ever handled of this rare work on the subject. An example in the John J. Ford, Jr. Library brought a price of $650 plus the premium 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.