Nissen, Charles - The Plating of the Penny Black Postage Stamp of Great Britain, 1840
With a description of each individual stamp on the eleven different plates, affording a guide to collectors in the reconstruction of the sheets
Publisher: Stanley Gibbons Ltd., London, 2008.
Second edition, large hardback, maroon cloth gilt, dustwrapper, 122 pages + 120 plates, very slight signs of wear to the dustwrapper else in Very Good condition.
Reprint edition of the classic guide to plating the 1d Black.

£120.00

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['Besançon'] - Great Britain 1840-1910
The 'Besançon' Collection (part I)
Publisher: Corinphila, Zurich, 2019.
Auction catalogue, hardback, dustwrapper, illustrated, 144 pages, with prices realised, text in English, a little mild creasing to edges of dustwrapper else in Very Good condition.
Superb catalogue of classic GB. Very well illustrated in colour.

£20.00

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McDonald, A. - The Telegraph Stamps of Great Britain
Publisher: privately published by the author, London, 1959.
Paperback, illustrated, 42 pages, dusty marks to the covers, in Good condition.
Very scarce.

£12.50

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["Lionheart"] - The "Lionheart" Collection of Great Britain and British Empire - Part IX
Publisher: Spink, London, 2019.
Auction catalogue, paperback, illustrated, 79 pages, in Very Good condition.
Very well illustrated in colour.

£7.50

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- Specialised Great Britain
Important Line Engraved
Publisher: Grosvenor Auctions, London, 2007.
Auction catalogue, large paperback, colour illustrated, 63 pages, slightest shelfwear else in Very Good condition.
Superb reference catalogue of selected items from an award-winning collection.

£9.00

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["Windsor"] - The "Windsor" Collection of Great Britain
Publisher: Harmer's, London, 2003.
Auction catalogue, paperback, illustrated, 18 pages + separate brochure of colour plates, 24 pages, spine slightly sunned, slight corner-crease to front cover, pages fine, in Good condition.
Specialised collection of 1840 One Penny blacks, including Treasury Competition Essays, Rainbow Trials, etc.

£9.00

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Rowse, David - Joshua Bacon 1790-1863
The Printer of Banknotes and the First Postage Stamps
Publisher: The Great Britain Philatelic Society, London, 2000.
First edition, hardback, dustwrapper, vi + 74 pages + plates, slight wear to the dustwrapper, tiny dent to the front cover, previous owner's gift inscription to front endpaper, in Good condition.
Fascinating account of the man largely responsible for the success of the printing firm of Perkins, Bacon. With fine illustrations, including 4 colour plates.

£20.00

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[Glassco, J. Grant] - British Post Offices Abroad
The Glassco Collection
Publisher: Robson Lowe, London, 1969.
Auction catalogue, paperback, 259 pages, illustrated, with the list of prices reailsed, some foxing to the spine and a little to the covers, pages clean, in Good condition.
The greatest collection of GB Post Offices Abroad ever formed. Profusely illustrated in black & white and some colour. An important reference.

£20.00

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[Vestey] - Great Britain Queen Victoria Issues
including a selection if items from the Vestey Collection
Publisher: Spink, London, 2010.
Auction catalogue, paperback, illustrated, 64 pages, in Very Good condition.
Very well illustrated in colour.

£9.50

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Salmon, Michael - The Life and Work of Charles Whiting and the Beaufort House Press
A Treasury Competition Winner
Publisher: The Royal Philatelic Society, London, 2007.
Paperback, illustrated, iv + 60 pages, in Very Good condition.
Supplement to "The London Philatelist". Very well illustrated in colour.

£12.50

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Harvey, Ian - Great Britain Booklets, Production and Promotion
The First 100 Years
Publisher: privately published by the author, 2014.
Paperback, illustrated, viii + 48 pages, in Very Good condition.
'Hand-out' to accompany a Display to the Royal Philatelic Society London. Very well illustrated in colour.

£15.00

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[Yates, E.E.] - The Unique Collection of The Mulready and Associated Pictorial Envelopes
offered by order of E.E. Yates, Esq.
Publisher: Robson Lowe Ltd., London, 1949.
Auction catalogue, paperback, illustrated, 60 pages, rusty staple marks and a tiny blemish to lower edge, internally clean, in Good condition.
Important reference catalogue.

£30.00

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[Adams, H.C.V.] - Catalogue, The First Portion of the H.C.V. Adams "Grand Prix" Collection of Great Britain Line-Engraved
Publisher: Robson Lowe, London, 1956.
Auction catalogue, paperback, illustrated, 48 pages, with photocopy prices realised, slight wear to top of spine else in Very Good condition.
Important sale of GB line-engraved. Well illustrated in black & white.

£20.00

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Smith, W.J. - James Chalmers
Inventor of the Adhesive Postage Stamp
Publisher: David Winter & Son Ltd., Dundee, 1970.
Hardback, dustwrapper, 148 pages + plates, in Very Good condition.
The story of James Chalmers' claim to be the inventor of the postage stamp, and of the Chalmers-Hill controversy.

£9.50

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Osborn, Geoffrey - Naval Officers' Letters
A Study of Letters Sent to and from British Royal Navy Officers Serving Abroad in the Victorian Era
Publisher: Stuart Rossiter Trust Fund, Bristol, 1995.
Large paperback (pictorial card covers), illustrated, 134 pages, covers somewhat rubbed at edges, front cover creased, pages fine, in Good condition.
Illustrates pages from the author's collection with additional text. Illustrated in black & white.

£12.00

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Stanton, J.B.M. - Great Britain
The Varieties and Characteristics of the 1d. Red Line-Engraved Stamps 1841-1864
Publisher: Chas. Nissen & Co. Ltd., London, 1958.
Hardback, 398 pages, foxing to endpapers, slight staining to fore-edges, internally clean, a perfectly Good working copy.
Rare, classic work on plating of the Penny Red.

£40.00

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Easton, John - The De La Rue History of British & Foreign Postage Stamps
1855-1901
Publisher: Faber & Faber for the Royal Philatelic Society, London, 1958.
Hardback, dustwrapper, xxiii + 846 pages + 48 b/w plates, a couple of tiny short tears to the price-clipped dustwrapper else in Very Good condition.
Very detailed history of stamp production at De La Rue in the nineteenth century, based on the company's Day Books and Correspondence Books. Illustrated with black & white illustrations of hundreds of the rejected designs and essays. A classic work.

£45.00

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Fryer, Gavin and Akerman, Clive (Editors) - The Reform of the Post Office in the Victorian Era and its Impact on Economic and Social Activity
Documentary History 1837 to 1864 Based on Sir Rowland Hill's Journal and Ancillary Papers, with Glossary, Bibliography and Comprehensive Index
Publisher: The Royal Philatelic Society, London, 2000.
Two large volumes, hardbacks, dustwrappers, lviii + vi + 1304 pages, ex RPSL Library with their library bookplate to front pastedown-endpapers, dustwrappers slightly rubbed and chipped at corners, remains of a small sticker to dustwrapper of Vol II, in Good condition.
No. 38 of a limited edition of 650 copies (although it is understood that a substantial part of the print run was destroyed, thus the book is far scarcer than indicated by the stated print run). Foreword by Asa Briggs. Well illustrated including numerous colour plates. A huge work in two volumes. With much detail on Rowland Hill's reforms and the introduction of the first adhesive postage stamps. Out of print.

£120.00

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Lowe, Malcolm G. - The Mulready Advertisements
Publisher: Mulready Research Foundation, USA, 1983.
Large format hardback, dustwrapper, illustrated, xviii + 320 pages, a couple of very short tears to the dustwrapper else in Very Good condition.
Scarce work.

£45.00

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Evans, Major E.B. - The Mulready Envelope and its caricatures
A Description of the Mulready Envelope and of Various Imitations and Caricatures of its Design; with an Account of other Illustrated Envelopes of 1840 and Following Years
Publisher: SR Publishers & Stanley Gibbons, London, 1970.
Reprint, hardback, dustwrapper, viii + 240 pages, in Very Good condition.
Reprint edition of this classic work on the Mulready and its caricatures. Profusely illustrated. This remains one of the main handbooks on the subject. The original 1891 edition is now very rare, and even this reprint edition is very difficult to find.

£55.00

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