Excerpt from The Line-Engraved Postage Stamps of Great Britain Printed by Perkins, Bacon and Co, Vol. 1 of 2: A History of Their Production During the Forty Years, 1840 to 1880 The reader who consults this book will doubtless expect to find some definition Of its scope and aim. The two standard volumes on the stamps of Great Britain,1 to which frequent reference will be found in our pages, deal with the whole of the values and varieties of the postage stamps issued in the country. The present work is designed to give the history of the production of the first adhesive postage stamps ever issued, with an account of the other British line-engraved stamps printed by the house Of Perkins Bacon throughout the period Of forty years from 1840 to 1880, during which the firm held contracts for the supply Of Postage stamps to the Govern ment. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.