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Publication Updates and Corrections
from The Royal Philatelic Society London

  • Corrections to Publications
    • The Mulready Caricature
    • Revenue and Telegraph Stamps of Nicaragua
    • The Returned Letter Offices of Great Britain to 1912 and Beyond
    • Postal Routes to the Dutch Possessions in West Africa, West Indies and Suriname 1652 to 1919
    • RPSL Members' Collections 2019
    • British Letter Mail to Overseas Destinations 1840 to UPU
    • The Postal History of the Oxford Union Society
    • Swaziland Philately to 1968
    • The King George VI Large Key Type Revenue and Postage High Value Stamps 1937-1953
  • Guides
    • Philatelic Conservation – A Basic Guide
    • Philatelic Research – A Basic Guide
    • Context Philately – An Introduction
    • RPSL House Style for Publications
    • What Philatelists Need to Know About Copyright
    • The History of Philately in Great Britain and Ireland – A Bibliography of Monographs, Grey Literature and Selected Texts

Corrections to Publications

From time to time, errors and omissions occur in some of our publications. We make the corrections available below.

The Mulready Caricature

The Mulready Caricature by Robin Cassell and Richard Hobbs

Click Here to Download Addenda V02a, November 2025

Items are included under the following categories:

  1. To correct an error in the original publication
  2. To provide additional Provenance detail where an item has been offered for sale since the original cut-off date of 31 December 2023.
  3. To provide an improved image where this has become available since 31 December 2023.
  4. To provide an image of a newly recorded item.
  5. To allocate a new code to a newly recorded item

Eighteen new discoveries are included in this Addenda

Revenue and Telegraph Stamps of Nicaragua

Revenue and Telegraph Stamps of Nicaragua edited by Clayton Rubec

The original book was published in 2024. There is now a 2-page file of errata that have been noted, and, as a result of additional material received after the publication, there are 6 pages of additional relevant material. These pages have been compiled into a digital download.

Click here for the digital download.

The Returned Letter Offices of Great Britain to 1912 and Beyond

The Returned Letter Offices of Great Britain to 1912 and Beyond by J. Kenneth Snelson & Robert B. Galland FRPSL

The original book was published in 2017. Now six years in retrospect, the author’s Errata and Addenda is compiled in one format (2-134 pages) and published in its digital format.

The purpose of the original book was to describe the history of RLOs and then list artifacts associated with them such as wrappers, envelopes, forms etc. The purpose of this addenda project is to describe returned letter envelopes from more or less when RLOGB ended. The titles of the two are therefore different.

In part 1 of this addenda project it seemed sensible to include an update and corrections, but only for envelopes, not the other artifacts. Part 1 is not only an update as it also includes, for the first time, a complete classification of all RL envelopes. Data included in part 2 are completely new and previously unpublished.

Click here for a Digital Download.
Click here to purchase printed version.

Postal Routes to the Dutch Possessions in West Africa, West Indies and Suriname 1652 to 1919

Postal Routes to the Dutch Possessions in West Africa, West Indies and Suriname 1652 to 1919 – A Guide to Dutch Maritime Mail

The original book by Sven Påhlman was published in September 2021. Now two years in retrospect, the author’s Errata and Addenda is compiled in one format (32 pages) and published in its digital format.

Click here to download pdf

RPSL Members’ Collections 2019

More details …

Unfortunately, the pages contributed by Eduardo and Luís Moreira Barreiros had spelling mistakes in their names.
Click here for a replacement PDF file for pages 18 and 412 to 422.

Also, unfortunately, pages contributed by Paul Woods were incorrectly attributed to Peter Woods.
Click here for a replacement PDF file for pages 21 and 571 to 574

We apologise for the errors.

British Letter Mail to Overseas Destinations 1840 to UPU

British Letter Mail to Overseas Destinations 1840 to UPU by Jane Moubray and Michael Moubray

Unfortunately, page 307a was inadvertently omitted from this book.
Click here to download the missing page as a PDF file.

We apologise for the omission.

The Postal History of the Oxford Union Society

The Postal History of the Oxford Union Society by Vincent West FRPSL Published February 2012

Click here to download an Addenda and Corrigenda as a PDF file.

Swaziland Philately to 1968

Swaziland Philately to 1968

Unfortunately, page 59 has some characters missing from the page.
Click here for a replacement PDF file for page 59.

We apologise for the error.

The King George VI Large Key Type Revenue and Postage High Value Stamps 1937–1953

The King George VI Large Key Type Revenue and Postage High Value Stamps 1937–1953

Click here for Corrections And Amendments – March 2009 supplied by the author, Eric Yendall


Guides

Philatelic Conservation – A Basic Guide

Based on a Paper given at the 87th Philatelic Congress of Great Britain, Derby on 8th July, 2005.
By David R Beech MBE FRPSL, formerly the Curator and Head of the Philatelic Collections at the British Library.

Click here to view.

Philatelic Research – A Basic Guide

Click here to view a basic guide to philatelic research by David R Beech MBE FRPSL

Context Philately – An Introduction

Click here to view an introductory guide to Context Philately, a new philatelic term for a trend or activity which has been developing within philately in the last few years, by David R Beech MBE FRPSL

RPSL House Style for Publications

Click here to view the House Style  as a PDF file.
Click here to download an MS-Word Template
Click here to download an MS-Word Template Help
Click here  to download Adobe Indesign Book Template (in zip file)

What Philatelists Need to Know About Copyright

Click here to view the London Philatelist article by Charles Oppenheim FRPSL

The History of Philately in Great Britain and Ireland – A Bibliography of Monographs, Grey Literature and Selected Texts

For those who may wish to research the history of philately, this geographically limited bibliography has been compiled by David R Beech MBE FRPSL, formerly the Curator and Head of the Philatelic Collections at the British Library.

As little has been written on this subject in recent years, this work should be viewed as a work in progress with a special focus on Philatelic Society history.

Click here to view.


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