Stanley Gibbons Great Britain Stamp Catalogues

Now stitched with lay-flat binding, making it far easier to use than previous editions

This ever-popular Stanley Gibbons Great Britain Concise Catalogue provides the perfect catalogue for the collector seeking more detailed information on Great Britain stamps than provided by the Collect British Stamps checklist, without the highly detailed coverage of the five-volume specialised series.

The 2013 edition has been extensively updated with all prices reviewed and revised in line with the current market, with increases in all periods from the 1840 2d. blue right through to recent Machins, there are notable increases for the listed plate flaws and modern errors.

Stanley Gibbons Great Britain Stamp Catalogue lists and prices all British stamps from 1840 to early 2013.

Every different stamp design is illustrated in full colour.

Listings include changes of watermark, perforation, shade and phosphor.

First day covers, Royal Mail postage labels, Post Office (PHQ) Cards, presentation packs, booklets, postage dues, regionals, official stamps, postal fiscals and Post Office label sheets (Smilers) all listed and priced.

Includes gutter pair prices.

Gutter Pairs and “Traffic light” Gutter Pairs listed in mint sets.

First Day Covers for Special Issues from 1924 and for King Edward VIII and King George VI definitives listed.

Prestige Booklet panes and Regionals included for Queen Elizabeth II.

All British Post Office special First Day of Issue postmarks are illustrated and priced on cover.

Quick reference diagrams for listed Machin decimal booklet panes.

Visible plate numbers listed for Victorian stamps.

All basic stamps priced mint and used, with unmounted and mounted mint prices from 1887 to 1935 and on-cover prices from 1840 to 1911.

Major errors and varieties including missing colours and perforation and watermark errors listed and priced.

Helpful introductory section providing philatelic definitions and guidance for the collector.

Booklet pane diagrams and indexes of commemorative designs and Machin definitives make this catalogue the perfect guide to British stamps and their values.

Includes a Commemorative Design Index.

Useful table of postage rates contemporary with NVIs.

Inverted and sideways watermarks are listed and priced, as well as First Day Covers, presentation packs, FRAMAS, PHQ cards, ‘Smiler’ sheets, errors – and a host of other details.

Includes simplified listings of specimen overprints.

Includes the popular Post Office Label Sheets.

Includes Post Office Yearbooks and Year Packs.

Helpful introductory section providing definitions and guidance for the collector and including all watermark illustrations shown together to assist identification.

Recently discovered errors and new items now listed.

Post & Go stamps fully listed.

(Please note it may take up to 28 days for delivery of this item. If you have any queries, please contact us on +44 1425 472363).

This ever-popular Stanley Gibbons Great Britain Concise Catalogue provides the perfect catalogue for the collector seeking more detailed information on Great Britain stamps than provided by the Collect British Stamps checklist, without the highly detailed coverage of the five-volume specialised series. HARDBACK EDITION

The 2013 edition has been extensively updated with all prices reviewed and revised in line with the current market, with increases in all periods from the 1840 2d. blue right through to recent Machins, there are notable increases for the listed plate flaws and modern errors.

Stanley Gibbons Great Britain Stamp Catalogue lists and prices all British stamps from 1840 to early 2013.

Every different stamp design is illustrated in full colour.

Listings include changes of watermark, perforation, shade and phosphor.

First day covers, Royal Mail postage labels, Post Office (PHQ) Cards, presentation packs, booklets, postage dues, regionals, official stamps, postal fiscals and Post Office label sheets (Smilers) all listed and priced.

Includes gutter pair prices.

Gutter Pairs and “Traffic light” Gutter Pairs listed in mint sets.

First Day Covers for Special Issues from 1924 and for King Edward VIII and King George VI definitives listed.

Prestige Booklet panes and Regionals included for Queen Elizabeth II.

All British Post Office special First Day of Issue postmarks are illustrated and priced on cover.

Quick reference diagrams for listed Machin decimal booklet panes.

Visible plate numbers listed for Victorian stamps.

All basic stamps priced mint and used, with unmounted and mounted mint prices from 1887 to 1935 and on-cover prices from 1840 to 1911.

Major errors and varieties including missing colours and perforation and watermark errors listed and priced.

Helpful introductory section providing philatelic definitions and guidance for the collector.

Booklet pane diagrams and indexes of commemorative designs and Machin definitives make this catalogue the perfect guide to British stamps and their values.

Includes a Commemorative Design Index.

Useful table of postage rates contemporary with NVIs.

Inverted and sideways watermarks are listed and priced, as well as First Day Covers, presentation packs, FRAMAS, PHQ cards, ‘Smiler’ sheets, errors – and a host of other details.

Includes simplified listings of specimen overprints.

Includes the popular Post Office Label Sheets.

Includes Post Office Yearbooks and Year Packs.

Helpful introductory section providing definitions and guidance for the collector and including all watermark illustrations shown together to assist identification.

Recently discovered errors and new items now listed.

Post & Go stamps fully listed.

(Please note it may take up to 28 days for delivery of this item. If you have any queries, please contact us on +44 1425 472363).

Simplified full colour price listing of every mint and used British stamp from the 1840 Penny Black to Christmas 2012. Contains all commemorative designs illustrated for ease of use with fully updated listings of the popular Post & Go Stamps and a fully priced list of Royal Mail Philatelic, Numismatic and Medallic covers.

- Provides a straightforward simplified, richly illustrated listing of all British stamps
- Contains latest stamp values
- Features high quality stamp images throughout
- All commemorative designs are illustrated
- Oustanding value

‘To echo a statement on the cover, this is certainly 'the definitive price guide to British stamps'. Canadian Stamp News Aug 2012'

'It really is a superb introduction to GB philately, full of helpful advice on how to build a collection', Antiques Info - July 2012

'When considering stamps of the United Kingdom, there is no question Collect British Stamps, sets the benchmark', Stamps News Online - March 2012

This highly anticipated price guide has been updated with a new, easy-to-use layout with clear illustrations throughout and helpful guidance making it easier to find exactly what you need and get the latest prices at your fingertips.

Listing the postmarks of Great Britain, this catalogue was produced in collaboration with the British Postmark Society and compiled by a number of leading experts in the field, including Editor Bill Pipe.

Get Collect British Postmarks and you will be able to identify any British postmark and determine a minimum value of a cover with a comprehensive number system widely used by postmark collectors. Last published in 1997 this highly anticipated catalogue is available now.

'Newcomers attracted to this absorbing field will learn much, for this wholly admirable ‘CBP’ is designed as much for them as for specialists…This excellent one-stop resource is perfect for newcomers and opens up an enormous field, encouragingly pinpointing multitudes of often quite cheap items.'
- Michael Round, Stamp Lover, Vol 104 June 2012

'In short, it is a winner!'
Thomas P. Myers, Great Britain Collectors Club Chronicle, April 2012

This full colour catalogue provides a comprehensive priced listing of mint and used stamps of the Channel Islands and Isle of Man, including the Wartime occupation issues of Guernsey and Jersey, the British Post Office "Regional issues and the stamps of the independent postal administrations of Guernsey (including Alderney), the Isle of Man and Jersey.

This full colour catalogue provides a straightforward, simplified price listing of every mint and used British stamp from the Penny Black to Christmas 2011, with all commemorative designs illustrated for ease of use. Contains fully updated listings of the popular Post & Go Stamps and a fully priced list of Royal Mail Philatelic, Numismatic and Medallic covers.

Providing a straightforward simplified, richly illustrated listing of all British stamps

Hundreds of price changes since the previous edition, particularly to Queen Victoria

Over 270 pages in full colour

All commemorative designs illustrated

Oustanding value

Helpful introduction with advice on how to build a collection

‘A beautifully-presented and useful work, even to a specialist collector’ - The GB Journal

'Easily accessible to beginners…an important book that should be in every public library in the UK' - Great Britain Collectors Club Chronicle

'The all-colour illustrations are, as always, invaluable for quickly locating any new commemorative among the deluge …still probably the very best catalogue for GB simple-lifers' - Michael Round, Stamp Lover Vol 104, June 2012

The Great Britain Concise catalogue provides full colour price listings for all mint and used Great Britain stamp issues from the 1840 Penny Black to March 2011.

Included are definitives, commemoratives, regionals, postage dues, official stamps and booklets. Information for the more specialist collector includes priced listings of specimens, booklets, selected plate and cylinder varieties, errors (including missing colours, missing embossing, imperforates and phosphor omitted varieties) and inverted watermarks. More ‘popular’ fields covered include prices for gutter pairs, first day covers, presentation packs, yearbooks, ‘Smilers’ and much else.

Listings with prices for all GB stamps from 1840 to April 2011

Covers all GB Definitives, Commemoratives, First Day Covers, Presentation Packs, Booklets and Smilers

Also lists Errors, Varieties, Watermarks, Specimens, Officials and Regionals

Prices for used and unused stamps

360 pages with Full colour illustrations

Hundreds of price increases since last edition

There is a helpful introductory section, providing answers to many of the problems encountered by less experienced collectors, while additional help comes in the form of a full design index and diagrams showing the layout of Machin decimal booklet panes.

Prices are given for both unmounted and mounted mint stamps issued between 1887 and 1935 and on-cover prices are provided up to 1910. All are carefully checked each year to give an accurate easy-to-use guide to British stamps and their values, thus ensuring the continuing popularity of this widely used catalogue.

The ideal catalogue for any Great Britain stamp collector - an illustrated full colour price listing of all mint and used Great Britain stamps from the famous Penny Black of 1840 up to the end of 2010, with all commemorative designs illustrated for ease of use.

The catalogue now includes "Post and Go" and Service Specific Stamps. Every stamp value has been reviewed with significant price increases recorded, especially for pre-1935 stamps and more recent issues.

This ever-popular Stanley Gibbons Great Britain Concise Catalogue provides the perfect catalogue for the collector seeking more detailed information on Great Britain Stamps than provided by the Collect British Stamps checklist, without the highly detailed coverage of the five-volume specialised series. Extensively updated with all prices reviewed and revised in line with the current market. Post Ofiice Telegraph Stamps listed for the first time, including major errors and specimens. Selected Queen Elizabeth commemorative plate flaws included for the first time.

Limited Hardback Edition

This ever-popular Stanley Gibbons Great Britain Concise colour catalogue is the perfect resource for the colector seeking more detailed information on Great Britain stamps than provided by the Collect British Stamps checklist, without the highly detailed coverage of the five-volume specialised series.

Extensively updated with all prices for mint and used stamps reviewed and revised in line with the current market. Post Office Telegraph Stamps are listed for the first time, including major errors and specimens. Selected Queen Elizabeth commemorative plate flaws have been included for the first time.

This colour catalogue provides a comprehensive priced listings of the mint and used stamps of the Channel islands and the Isle of Man, including Wartime occupation issues of Guernsey and Jersey, the British Post Office "Regional" issues and the stamps of the independent postal administrations of Guernsey (including Alderney), the Isle of Man and Jersey. Over 270 stamps, miniature sheets, booklets have been added since the last edition. First Day Covers, presentation packs, yearpacks, postage dues and booklets are listed and priced.

Published November 2009. The ideal catalogue for any Great Britain collector - a simplified listing of stamps from the famous Penny Black of 1840 up to the 2009 Christmas stamps. The listings inlcude all stamps with different watermark or perforation, visible plate numbers on the Victorian issues, graphitelined and phosphor issues, including in the numbers of phosphor bands. The catalogue includes first day covers for definitives from 1936, regionals and all special issues, presentation packs, post office yearbooks, war occupation stamps of Guernsey and Jersey, Guernsey, Jersey and Isle of Man stamps issued before postal independence, postage due and(BSEL)tive gutter pairs and traffice light gutter pairs. This new edition contains a wealth of new material to help collec tors enjoy their hobby. New features include sections covering all the basics of collecting (what to collect, how to obtain stamps, how to store them, what special equipment is available). Are you keen to understand the Sg numbering system? All is explained in this catalogue (BSEL)

This multi-award winning and fully illustrated catalogue is the standard reference work for specialist collectors of the popular "Four Kings" period of British Philately, from 1902-1952.

Prices are given for mounted, unmounted and fine used examples for the period from 1902 to 1935 and for unmounted and used thereafter. On cover prices are also given for Edward VII issues.

"The book is so much better than I had expected. The two column format, the print density and the illustrations are now the standard by which others will be judged by. Thank you so much for catering to this specialised market with such incredible attention to detail and using the highest modern publishing standards. Money well spent," Mr M

The catalogue contains background information for all issues, with full details of plate markings, sheet arrangements, inks, papers and shades, with helpful guidance on identification. Essays, proofs and colour trials are all listed and priced.

Many plate flaws are illustrated and priced and numerous shades, not listed in the GB Concise catalogue, are also priced mint and used. Detailed listings of control numbers and marginal plate markings are provided for the specialist. Booklet panes, postage dues, officials and Channel Island occupation issues are all fully listed.

Appendixes cover perforators, booklets, specimen overprints, protective un derprints and inland postage rates.

This thoroughly researched and fully illustrated stamp catalogue provides a specialised price listing of all pre-decimal Queen Elizabeth II British postage stamps from December 1952 to the end of 1970.

This catalogue has long been recognized as the standard guide to the early stamps of the present reign and the new 12th edition features an enormous number of additions and improvements, making it absolutely indispensable to collectors of this fascinating period in British philately.

Definitive stamps, commemoratives and special issues, postage dues, regionals and booklets are all covered in substantial depth in this hardback publication.

Essential reading for all Channel Island Collectors. Learn about the philately of the Channel Islands - including coverage of postal history during this fascinating period. pProfusely illustrated in colour. Expert contributors Chris Morvan and David Gurney provide a highly readable account of Channel Islands philatelic history.

A collectors guide with over 500 full colour illustrations providing a chronilogical index and listing of: Generic Stamp Sheets, Customised Stamp Sheets, Business Customised Stamp Sheets, Themed Customised Stamp Sheets, Commemorative Stamp Sheets, Smilers for Kids packs, Isle of Man Stamp Sheets, Universal Mail Customised Stamp Sheets. The guide includes all stamp sheets issued since they first apperared in 2000 with additional information on special presentation packs, covers and ephemera of this growing area of stamp collecting & study. Includes a guide to market prices in fact everything for the novice and expert collector alike, in one handy comprehensive reference guide.

A detailed listing of all known first day issues including early Channel Isles and most Great Britain overprints.