Brian Webb’s survey of David Gentleman’s 103 pioneering postage stamp designs, reaching back to the early 1960s, forms a new letterpress book from the Fleece Press. Each copy will feature 79 tipped-in stamps. Coinciding with a current decline in the quality of stamp design and the introduction of barcoded stamps, this book will be a gallery of some of the best British philatelic designs.

This fitting record of David’s achievement, including a good number of stamps first created on the boxwood block, is a book very carefully planned: the 29,000 stamps have been bought in tiny quantities here and there over several years, and every issue is represented. The text is set in 8 point Baskerville, and bound in quarter imitation vellum with printed paper over the boards.

There are 330 copies (280 for sale). Price £155, postage £4 within the UK.

To order this book, please email me at simon@fleecepress.com (the button below can be used if you have email set up on your device’s Mail app) or call me on 01226 792200.