Volume 4 in this definitive series of handbooks, which attempts to list all handstamps of all the towns and villages up to 1840. Each county listing is prepared by a specialist editor and includes notes on size, colour, dates of use, and rarity. Well illustrated with illustrations of the various types of handstamp and with maps. The counties covered by this volume are: Beds, Berks, Cheshire, Dorset, Hants, Isle of Man, Kent, Lancs, Staffs, and Yorkshire.