THE PLATING OF THE PENNY BLACK POSTAGE STAMP OF GREAT BRITAIN BY CHARLES NISSEN

[NISSEN, CHARLES; MCGOWAN, BERTRAM]. The Plating of the Penny Black Postage Stamp of Great Britain, 1840. (With a Description of Each Individual Stamp on the Eleven Different Plates, Affording a Guide to Collectors in the Reconstruction of the Sheets). London and Ringwood: Stanley Gibbons, 2008.

SECOND EDITION. Cloth-bound; hardcover with dust jacket; quarto (31 x 25 x 2.5 cm); [14], xx, 243 pages. English text written by Charles Nissen in collaboration with Bertram McGowan, with a new Foreword by Charles Goodwyn. Illustrated plates throughout, with an appendix to rear. Condition: NEAR FINE. Trivial edge wear to dust jacket, otherwise a fine copy, without previous ownership markings. Scarce.

Notes: The definitive collectors guide and one of the scarcest books on the plating of the one penny black, republished by Stanley Gibbons from the original 1922 edition by Chas. Nissen & Co. Limited.