[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, 1998.
SECOND EDITION, cloth-bound, hardcover with dust jacket, quarto (31cm x 25cm), pp. [14], [xx], 243. English text written by Charles Nissen in collaboration with Bertram McGowan, with a new foreword by Charles Goodwyn. Illustrated throughout, with an appendix to rear. 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. Condition: FINE. A wonderful tight and clean copy. Scarce.
