Line-engraved collection, 150 mint and used stamps displayed on cards in a stockbook, the used starting with seven penny blacks unchecked for plates incl. 3x four-margin examples, 1840 2d blue (lower margin in at right, otherwise sound), 1d red imperfs with distinctive maltese crosses incl. Dublin (4 margins), numbers in crosses, SG.8 with well-blued paper with good MX strike (4 margins), 2d 'lines' four margins imperfs and interesting perf issues incl. SG.19 pair and SG.34 with distinct printing flaw on queen's face, followed by a very useful range of the corner letters reds and blues incl. SG.45 watermark inverted (plate 8). The mint material runs from 1841 1d red imperf with four margins (SG.8, cat.£600) through to corner letters 1d red plates incl. pl.100 pair, 2d plates 13-15 (cat.£1,400), and study of the rose plates. Condition is mixed, yet on the whole well above the average with some top-quality items.