The Postage Stamps, Envelopes, Wrappers, Post Cards, and Telegraph Stamps of the British Colonies in the West Indies: Together with British Honduras and the Colonies in South America (Classic Reprint) - Couverture souple

Society, Royal Philatelic

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 133377284X ISBN 13 : 9781333772840

Editeur : Forgotten Books, 2018

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Présentation de l'éditeur

Reference Lists of theS tamps of the various West Indian and other Colonies comprised in the present work were revised and completed (so far as was possible at that time) by the Philatelic Society of London more than twelve months ago. Various circumstances have combined to induce the Committee appointed to superintend their publication to postpone the actual production of the work. The Society had recently received fromM r. Basset HuU, the manuscript of his elaborate treatise upon the stamps ofT asmania, and it was thought best to at once revise and publish his catalogue in priority to theW est Indies lists, although the latter were immediately in hand at the time. The labour and expense necessary to the production of the autotype illustrations of the one Catalogue, would alone have occasioned delay in proceeding with the other, but this was not the only reason which has compelled the Committee to ask for some indulgence at the hands of theS ociety and the Philatelic public. lone but those who have worked, and been in constant intercourse, with the late Vice-P resident of theS ociety, Mr. Thomas K. Tapling, can at aU appreciate how severe was the blow dealt, how essential the prop displaced, by his untimely death in the zenith of his career of useful labour in the pursuit of Philately. Within comparatively but a few days of his death he was actively engaged in the final revision of theB ritish Guiana reference list, and in elucidating the details and difficulties attaching to that Colony, which, even after the careful work of theS ociety, still presented themselves to the Committee. It was natural, and the Committee feel that but little apology is due for such a result, that the loss of so valuable a coadjutor, whose hand had been a master hand in this as in previous works of theS ociety, should delay the production of so important a treatise. The invaluabl
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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Forgotten Books
• Date d'édition: 2018
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 133377284X
• ISBN 13: 9781333772840
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 253
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