127328 'THE NEWSPAPER ALMANACK STAMPS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND' BY JOHN CHANDLER AND H DAGNALL.

'THE NEWSPAPER ALMANACK STAMPS OF GREAT BRITAIN AND IRELAND' BY JOHN CHANDLER AND H DAGNALL. A fine copy of this excellent 1981 hardback published by The Great Britain Philatelic Society, 302 pages and comprehensively telling the story of the Newspaper Duty stamps. Contents: Introduction; The newspaper stamp is born; Additional halfpennies; Threepence-halfpenny and fourpence; Effect and application of the Newspaper Duty; Distinctive dies; The black stamps; The precancelled stamps; Irish Newspaper stamps; The stamps, British Newspaper Stamps, Irish Handbill Stamps, Irish Newspaper Stamps, British Almanack Stamps, Irish Almanack and Directory Stamps; Newspapers in the post; Almanack Stamps and Miscellaneous matters. (Ref 127328).