The Stamps of Tasmania : a history of the postage stamps, envelopes, post cards, adhesive and impressed revenue and excise stamps of Tasmania by HULL, A.F. Basset - 1890

London: Philatelic Society. 1890. 200 copies only (not stated). Imperial 8vo (270x180mm). viii, 136pp, folding map, 9 plates printed rectos only (loosely inserted), Lt.-Governor Arthur's 1827 newspaper duty stamp illustrated in text (p15). Unlettered green cloth, extremities rubbed, a few slight marks. A little offsetting on the endpapers, a good+ clean copy (but see below). ***This copy bound in unlettered green cloth, patterned endpapers, edges sprinkled red, and with the plates loosely inserted and the map facing the Preface. The map is a standard Tasmanian government issue (drawn by Leventhorpe Hall, 1884); in his introduction Hull thanks the Tasmanian Minister of Lands for supplying it, but not all copies in public collections have one (those in the National Library, State Library of Victoria and Queen Victoria Museum, Launceston do not). The map herewith has evidently been supplied from another book, and it has the signature and some annotations by Gustav Thureau, the first Tasmanian Inspector of Mines and Government Mining Geologist (1882-89), identifying areas he had worked in. Ferguson 10648 does not mention a map, and calls for only 8 plates. The latter seems to be an error: there are three plates marked A-C, one of watermarks, and five displaying 64 images of postal items. The publisher's binding was blind-stamped brown cloth, lettered on the spine, with yellow endpapers; the plates hinge-mounted with linen at the end of the text and the map at the title-page. Some copies of the book were bound privately for institutions, perhaps with the unbound material being shipped to the colonies for that purpose. .