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Title: The Philatelic Record. Volume X. February to December, 1888.
Description: First Edition; Demy 8vo; pp. 223; tipped-in photographic frontispiece, numerous text illustrations, index, bound in purple cloth with the title lettered in gilt on spine, from the library of Melbourne bibliophile and collector John M. Chapman, with his book plate on upper pastedown, very good copy. London; Stanley, Gibbons, and Co.; 1888. The Philatelic Record was an important early philatelic magazine (The Official Publication of the Royal Philatelic Society of London), this particular volume is one of the most important early references to Australian Colonial Postal History and Philately with more than 30 pages on Australian stamps.

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