Author : John K. Tiffany
Release : 2018-02-21
Genre : Reference
Kind : eBook
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Download or read book The Philatelical Library written by John K. Tiffany. This book was released on 2018-02-21. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from The Philatelical Library: A Catalogue of Stamp Publications The collection of Postage Stamps has done no small service in preserving many interesting details of this history, and a well-arranged collection furnishes, perhaps, its best illustration. How or when stamp collecting began cannot now be very satisfactorily settled. Probably many of the earlier stamps were already obsolete before they became members of the first collection. Individuals had long collected before collecting became popular. We next hear of it as the mania of the day. Occasional articles, some satirizing it, others commending it, some even attempting to tell something about it, begin to appear in the public press. The end of 1862 furnished the first magazine entirely devoted to the subject. Then began to appear numerous magazines, illustrated and systematic manuals, priced catalogues, carefully prepared monographs, elaborately designed albums, a host of advertising circulars. These contain, together with matters relating to stamp collecting, much valuable history, not only of stamps, of their employment, and of the processes of their manufacture, but also of the Post Office itself; have better informed collectors, and more seriously attached them to the pursuit which has taken to itself the name of Philately, and claims to rank with Numismatics as a branch of historical and antiquarian study. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.