Literature. One of the scarcest books in Great Britain philatelic literature, the 1899 first (and only) edition of 'A history of the Adhesive Stamps of the British Isles' as published by the then Philatelic Society of London, from sources compiled by Wright and Creeke. A lovely slightly weathered leatherbound goldleaf hardcover with diagrams, photographs and above all scholarship in the exhaustive work of 265 pages + many dozens of accompanying illustrations. Very, very useful reference on the official overprints as well.
