Philatelic Series CD 44
The Postage Stamps Of
Japan And Dependencies
Japan, Korea, Formosa (Taiwan), China.
A. M. Tracey Woodward, 1928, volumes 1 and 2 complete, 861 pages,
English language.
This is one of the most important books in Japanese
philately, but with printed copies always being in very short
supply and examples of the first edition currently on sale for in
excess of £3000, few have had the priviledge of reading it. There
are 537 numbered pages of text, 34 chapters, 6 appendices, and over
240 full page plates of photographs, enlargements and hand drawn
illustrations. The varieties of the stamps of Japan and its
dependencies up to 1927 are coved to a level that this summary
cannot do justice - minor and major varieties of colour, paper,
perforation, gum etc. etc., hundreds of errors described,
retouches, descriptions of how to distinguish the plates,
descriptions of forgeries, and information helping us understand
the background to each issue. An exceptional book with
illustrations and photos filling one in every four pages,
showing full sheets, and enlargements of errors/retouches etc! The
author won the 1929 Crawford medal for this work (for the most
valuable and original contribution to the study and knowledge of
philately published in book form during that year), and the
Lindenberg medal for service to philately. A must for any serious
collector of Japan.
Above are 3 whole pages from the book, reduced in size to
fit onto this web-page. The author notes that the quality of some
of the plates suffers due to the inherent qualities of the stamps -
colour, paper, impression - and the fact that a few are
reproductions of other collector's photographs. Never-the-less, the
quality of the majority of the 240+ plates is more than sufficient
for you to see the fine details and identify your stamps as the
author intended. The text is all readable despite some areas of
faintness and small font size.
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This work is
Copyright (c) James Paul Marston 2011. Published by J&H
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