Great Britain line-engraved collection, in a Safe hingeless album with 1840 1d grey-black (D-B), margins nearly all round and sound, 1840 2d blue margins right around except LR corner and in at top, other small faults yet good clean colour and light cancel. Excepting absence of the 1½d, the collection then has no spaces save red plates 77 and 225 and 1/2d plate 9. The collector has achieved very reasonable quality overall on the 1d red plates. An additional stockbook holds dozens more 1d red imperfs, hundreds of 1d red 'stars' categorised incl. inverted wmk (small faults) and lots of further plates incl. over thirty pl.207 for reconstruction, and ½d page. A good range of the line-engraved period.