Great Britain and Ireland and generic works in English language, over 65 handbooks/catalogues including better works like The Standard Guide to Postage Stamp Collecting - Giving the Values and Degrees of Rarity by Bellars and Davie (1865 - early catalogue!), The Royal Philatelic Collection by J. Wilson (2 copies with minor ageing), The Catalogue of the Royal Collection British Asia and British Africa in 2 boxes, The Line-Engraved Postage Stamps of Great Britain by E.D. Bacon (1920), A History of the Adhesive Stamps of the British Isles by H.E. Wright and A.B. Creeke Jr. (1899), numerous older catalogues (1880s-1890s) including Colonial Stamps: Also those of Great Britain (G. E. Lockyer, 1887), better 1940s and 1950s handbooks, some 19th century 'Colour Dictionaries' etc. in 4 large boxes
