LIST OF WORKS INDEXED
SHOWING ABBREVIATIONS USED DENOTING SAME, WITH DATES OF ISSUE.
| S.C.R., | Stamp Collector’s Review, | I. | Vol. | 1862-64 |
| S.C.M., | Stamp Collector’s Magazine, | XII. | Vols. | 1863-74 |
| P., | Philatelist, | X. | Vols. | 1867-76 |
| P.R., | Philatelic Record, | XXVI. | Vols. | 1879-04 |
| S.G.M.J., | Stanley Gibbon’s Monthly Journal, | XV. | Vols. | 1890-04 |
| P.J.G.B., | Philatelic Journal of Great Britain, | XIV. | Vols. | 1891-00 |
| L.P., | London Philatelist, | XIII. | Vols. | 1892-04 |
| F.P., | Fiscal Philatelist, | I. | Vol. | 1892-3 |
| S.C.F., | Stamp Collector’s Fortnightly, | X. | Vols. | 1894-04 |
| E.S.J., | English Specialist’s Journal, | II. | Vols. | 1895-97 |
| S.C., | (Junior) Stamp Collector, | VIII. | Vols. | 1897-04 |
| S.C.G., | Stamp Collector’s Guardian, | I. | Vol. | 1899-00 |
| Y.S.C., | Young Stamp Collector, | I. | Vol. | 1900 |
| M.P.J., | Morley’s Philatelic Journal, | V. | Vols. | 1900-04 |
PREFACE.
The subject of an Index to Philatelic Literature has been before the philatelic public for some years now. It periodically crops up from time to time as a subject of discussion in the magazines, but with the exception of one or two fragmentary publications through these magazines, it has never taken a practically useful and handy form. That it is necessary, the writer has found from his own experience, and he began to compile a short Index for his private use in his philatelic researches. That a full and comprehensive Index of all the matter contained in all the past and current literature on the subject was an impossibility was very evident, so he set to work and noted all the leading or useful articles bearing directly on Philately and on the stamps of the various countries which have appeared in the leading and most reliable publications from the earliest philatelic times to the end of the year 1904. In so far, of course, as he was able to have access to such publications.
This, he thinks, forms a basis for the building up of the only practicable form of Philatelic Index which we are likely to produce within the reach of the average philatelist or philatelic literature reader. In compiling this Index, the indexes supplied with the different volumes have been ignored, every article having been read through and indexed direct.
The following are the Magazines which have been indexed in this work with the reasons for including them.
Stamp Collector’s Review:—Owing to its being the first publication given wholly to stamps, and owing to this interest attached, practically everything treated of within its pages has been indexed.
Stamp Collector’s Magazine:—Considering its date, and the small amount of general information to be had on the subject at the time, this is to be considered a marvellously advanced work. The men who contributed to its pages were the pioneers of our science.