James Chalmers Inventor of the Adhesive Postage Stamp by Smith W J (8 results)

1st edn. 8vo. Original black lettered blue cloth (Fine), dustwrapper (lightly rubbed and worn at extrems - in protective cover, not price clipped). Pp. 148, illus with b&w frontispiece, b&w plate, facsimile copy letters and copy franking marks (publisher's neat date stamp on front endpaper).

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. dustjacket has some scuffing and wear around edges.

First edition. 148pp; 11 illustrations. Blue boards. No inscriptions. VG in unclipped, faded and worn dustwrapper. [James Chalmers, a Dundee bookseller, proposed in 1834 the adoption of adhesive stamps to indicate the pre-payment of postage].

Hardcover. Condition: Near Fine. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. First Edition. 11 illustrations, 3 folding; "A short summary of the invention of the adhesive postage stamp"; Hardback: blue cloth lettered in black; Previous owner's name to front free end-paper, near fine in less fine dustwrapper.

Hardcover. Condition: As New. Dust Jacket Condition: Good. 1st Edition. 1st edition, 1970. Original dustjacket a little rubbed at the edges and faded to the spine. Blue cloth as new, pages unopened. Including 2 fold-out Chalmers 'essays'.

148pp + plates. 1st ed., fine in D/W. Charmers - Hill controversy explored.

Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. Dust Jacket Condition: VG-. 1st Edition. Blue cloth with black fr. & spine lettering, no obvious faults. f/piece + 148 + (1, photo) + (unf. yellow facs.)+ (4, blue facs. correspondence, 2 unfolding), 5 plates ex-pagination; pencil gift inscription top front end-paper probably from Smith, otherwise no obvious faults. Clean unclipped jacketunworn bar sl.top sp.rub, but scattered surface rubbing also. An exposure of how Roland Hill gained the credit for inventing the modern postage stamp when its previous locally documented invention by Dundee-based James Chalmers clearly establishes his priority, with Hill's removal of Chalmers's correspondence from H.M. Treasury offices gaining him the historical credit (a short 1891 publication regarding this by his son James Chalmers in incliuded). 13.5 cm x 19.5 cm.

Hardback. Condition: Good. The story of James Chalmers' claim to be the inventor of the postage stamp, and of the Chalmers-Hill controversy. DJ rubbed. 148 pages.