The second edition of volumes 1 and 2 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 second edition fully revises the first two volumes in the series and combines them in one volume. It lists all the known stamps for 23 counties and 4 cities of England: Buckinghamshire, Cambridgeshire, Channel Islands, Cornwall, Derbyshire, Devon, Essex, Hertfordshire, Huntingdonshire, Isle of Wight, Isles of Scilly, Leicestershire, Middlesex, Norfolk, Northamptonshire, Oxfordshire, Rutland, Shropshire, Suffolk, Surrey, Sussex, Warwickshire, Birmingham, Bristol, Manchester, & Liverpool. Long out of print and very difficult to find.