Philatelic Literature Specialists

Hausburg, L.L.R., Stewart-Wilson, C. and Crofton, C.S.F.

The Postage and Telegraph Stamps of British India

Publisher: Published for the Philatelic Society of India by Stanley Gibbons Ltd., London, 1907

Hardback, text bound in later blue cloth with gilt lettering to spine, original grey paper covers bound in, [4] + 215 pages, with Robson Lowe’s India Used Abroad bound in at end, with fifteen of the twenty-three loose plates, the remaining eight plates provided as photocopies (Plates 1, 4, 17, 18, 19, 21, 22, 23), a little foxing to the endpapers, original paper front cover somewhat creased and with remnants of a label, occasional small marks, in Good condition.

THE most important work on the classic stamps of India. Missing some of the separate loose plates, but including the sought-after Plate III (which was printed using the original plates).

£475.00