Description and condition:

Cloth spine over boards, 4to, 198pp, b/w illustrations throughout.

Good copy with bumping and chipping to corners and spine ends, owners name written neatly on front EP, else nice clean pages.

Contents:

Volume one: A general survey of the practices and processes employed in the manufacture of postage stamps. Paper making; Dickinson (silk thread) paper; the treatment of paper during and after manufacture for special purposes; technical and philatelic terms associated with paper; watermarks and their arrangement; the artist's design; a biographical index of artists and engravers; engraving and printing; line-engraving the Perkins process; other processes of preparing intaglio plates; printing from intaglio plates; lithography and kindred processes; typography; the construction of plates for typographic printing; protective coatings for stamp plates; technical difficulties in typography; common head dies and key-plates; typographical presses and machines; embossing.