By HARDY and BACON.

This well-known and most interesting handbook was published in 1898 by Mr. George Redway in his Collector Series. On the failure of this publisher lately, we purchased the balance of the edition—about 1,200 copies—and are now able to offer the work at a great reduction on its original price.

The chief contents are as follows:

The Issue of Postage Stamps. Collecting—Its Origin and Development.—Stamps made for Collectors.—Art in Postage Stamps.—Stamps with Stories.—History in Postage Stamps.—Local Stamps.—The Stamp Market. —Post Cards.—Famous Collections.—List of Philatelic Societies.

Well bound in art cloth, gilt lettered, 247 illustrations, 294 pages. Price 4/6; post-free, 4/10; abroad, 5/1.

The Mulready Envelope and its Caricatures.

This Work is a reprint in book-form, with a few alterations and additions, of a series of papers that have appeared in "The Monthly Journal." The book consists of 240 pages and some 45 full-page Illustrations of the most curious varieties of these interesting Caricatures. This New Work will be of interest, not only to Stamp Collectors, but also to those interested in Engravings—especially in the works of Leech, Mulready, Cruikshank, Doyle, Phiz (H. K. Browne), Theo. Hook, etc. etc. The Work has been produced in a very superior manner, and is printed on special paper with extra large margins; and by the kind permission of the Board of Inland Revenue an Illustration of the original Mulready is also included.

No. 1.—Strongly bound in extra cloth, gilt lettering, marbled burnished edges, &c., 6/-; post-free, 6/4; abroad, 6/8.

No. 2.—Edition de Luxe, handsomely bound, extra gilt, hand-made paper, with uncut edges, 10/-; post-free, 10/4; abroad, 10/8.

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