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Roth, Henry Ling.
The Yorkshire Coiners 1767-1783.
Publisher: F. King and Sons, Ltd Halifax;
Date of Publication: 1906
Stock Code: 12086
FIRST EDITION. Quarto, xvi, 322, xxvii. Profusely illustrated with 25 black and white plates, including frontispiece, and a further 233 illustrations throughout. Bound in brown cloth with gilt title to upper board and spine, top edge gilt. Some very light foxing to text-block edges and prelims. Lightly rubbed to corners. Historic armourial bookplate to paste-down. A clean, tight, and free from ownership inscriptions or annotations. Indispensable and engaging resource on the Crag Vale coiners, the rebellious collective of counterfeiters led by the notorious “King David” (David Hartley). Henry Ling Roth, curator of the Bankfield Museum in Halifax, draws from a wealth of archival documents, trial records, and contemporary newspaper reports with much of the material in print for the first time. The coiners’ compelling and brutal story was the basis of Benjamin Myer’s multiple award winning historical novel “The Gallows Pole” which was recently dramatised by director Shane Meadows. Scarce.

£125.00