london the viscont kemsley at the dropmore press first limited edition (1 results)

folio, (9.75 x 14 inches. 25 x 35.5 cm), pagination: viii, 85, 76, 48, 63, 64, 75 pages, two photographs of King George V and King George VI as frontispieces, 12 colour plates, 16 monochrome plates (depicting albums, housing of the collection, and various album pages; printed on both sides) in the introduction part apart from 12 colour (depicting stamps and each protected by onionskin paper (Figure 6); printed on one side only) and 16 monochrome plates, with 48 monochrome plates of stamps and covers to catalogue section, bound in full red Nigerian morocco, stamped in gold with the Royal Coat of Arms on the front and the Tudor rose motif on the rear cover, gilt titled spine with raised bands. A fine bright clean copy in the original publisher's slipcase. LIMITED EDITION of 1,500 finely bound copies. Ex Libris Gary S. Ryan RDP FRPLS with his fine presentation label to slipcase. Gary Sidney Ryan was an eminent philatelist who specialised in the stamps and postal history of Hungary and later in revenue stamps. Ryan was awarded the Crawford Medal of the Royal Philatelic Society London in 1988 for his work on the cancellations of Hungarian Post Offices on the first stamps of Hungary and he signed the Roll of Distinguished Philatelists in 1980. His philatelic writing won him a rarely awarded Grand Prix award for Literature at Frankfurt in 1989. With Robson Lowe and Ronald Butler, Ryan was one of the founders of The Revenue Society of Great Britain in 1990. Published in late 1952 and winner of The Crawford Medal in 1953, this is the most luxurious and beautiful philatelic book of all time. The book consists of two parts: (a) introduction narrating the story of the royal collection followed by the (b) catalogue of the collection. The catalogue comprises of five sections for Great Britain, British America, British Africa, British Asia, and British Australasia. The Royal Philatelic Collection was edited by Clarence Winchester and authored by Sir John Wilson, Keeper of the Royal Philatelic Collection from 1938 to 1969 as well as the President of The Royal Philatelic Society London from 1934 to 1940 and again from 1949 to 1950. At that time the Royal Collection consisted of 330 large albums containing a total of nearly a quarter million of stamps.