List of publications by Fred Melville

Fred Melville, as pictured in Gibbons Stamp Weekly, February 1905, at the time of the Junior Philatelic Exhibition.

A 1921 advert for the Melville stamp books.

The cover of Brunei.

Title page of Gambia by Melville.

United States Postage Stamps 1922-1925.

This is a list of publications by Fred Melville. The list is primarily of philatelic books, however, Melville also wrote a great many articles about philately and in addition was editor of the popular journals Heartsease Library, Cosy Corner, Good Words and Sunday Magazine,^[1] for all of which he most probably produced articles.

Melville Stamp Books

• British Central Africa and Nyasaland Protectorate, 1909, 84pp
• British New Guinea and Papua, 1909, 63pp
• Cape of Good Hope, 1913, 96pp
• Cayman Islands, 1912, 72pp
• Confederate States of America; Government Postage Stamps, 1913, 72pp
• Gambia, 1909, 84pp.
• Great Britain: Embossed Adhesive Stamps, 1910, 39pp
• Great Britain: King Edward VII Stamps, 1911, 83pp
• Holland, 1909, 77pp
• Jamaica, 1910, 89pp
• Nevis, 2nd edition 1910, 60pp (1st edition 1909)
• Portugal: Postage Stamps, 1880-1911, 1911, 85pp
• Portugal; The cameo stamps, 1911, 90pp
• St Helena, 1912, 92pp
• Tonga, 1909, 65pp
• United States Postage Stamps 1870-1893, 1910, 55pp
• United States Postage Stamps 1894-1910, 1910, 76pp

Philatelic Institute Publications

• Aero Stamp Collecting: A Practical Guide and Descriptive Catalogue, 2nd edition, 1924, 62p. (1st edition, 1923, 56p.)
• [Aero Stamps: A descriptive catalogue with prices, November 1920, 16p.
• Andorra, 1936, 48p.
• Antigua, 1929, 57p.
• Azerbaijan, n.d. (1924), 24p. Philatelic Institute papers; no. 17.
• Baden, 1928, 59p.
• The Boys Own Guide to Stamp Collecting, 1924, 55p.
• The British Prisoners' Stamps of Ruhleben, 1919, 4p. Philatelic Institute papers; no. 2.
• Brunei, 1932, 37p.
• Cape of Good Hope: The Fourpence Black Triangular Stamp, 1927, 7p. Philatelic Institute papers; no. 19.
• The Complete Philatelist, 1924, 246p.
• The Grammar Of Philately, 1924, 18p. Philatelic Institute papers; no. 8.
• Great Britain: The Line Engraved Stamps, 3rd Edition, 1925, 82p. (Previous editions: 1909 and 1910).
• History from the Stamp Album, 1924, 16p. Philatelic Institute papers; no. 11.
• How to Collect War Stamps: practical and suggestive hints for the collector accompanying a representative collection of 100 different stamps issued during the Great War, 1919, 16p.
• Local Postage Stamps, 1924, 14p. Philatelic Institute papers; no. 13.
• Oil Rivers and Niger Coast Protectorates, 1924, 58p.
• Origins of the Penny Post, 1930, 130p.
• Phantom Philately: A descriptive list of stamps that are not what they seem, 1923, 204p.
• Philatelic Accessories, 1924, 15p. Philatelic Institute papers; no. 9.
• The Philatelic Library, 1924, 20p. Philatelic Institute papers; no. 16.
• The Postage Stamps of the Mozambique Company, 1918, 9p. Philatelic Institute papers; no. 3.
• Postal Stationery, c1924, 12p. Philatelic Institute papers; no. 14.
• Postmarks, c1924, 11p. Philatelic Institute papers; no. 15.
• A Simplified Collection, 1924, 8p. Philatelic Institute papers; no. 12.
• Switzerland: The Children's Stamps,Pro Juventute, 1925, 14p. Philatelic Institute papers; no. 10.
• United States Postage Stamps 1922-1925, 1925, 93p.
• The Victory Album Of War Stamps, 1920, 44p.
• Virgin Islands, 1928, 68p.

Other Publications

• A Penny All the Way. The Story of Penny Postage, W H Peckitt, 2nd edition, 1908, 48pp
• A Penny All the Way. The Story of Penny Postage, Warren H Colson, American edition, 1908, 34pp
• Abyssinia, C Baldwin, 1909, 31pp
• All about Postage Stamps, T. Werner Laurie, London, 1914, 255pp
• An Historical Catalogue of the Stamps of the New Europe, 2nd edition 1919, 48pp
• An Innocent Afloat, F J Melville, 1926, 15pp
• Catalogue of War Stamps, 1914–15, J F Spriggs, 1st edition 1915, 16pp
• Catalogue of War Stamps, 1914–15, J F Spriggs, 2nd edition 1915, 48pp
• Chats on Postage Stamps, Fisher & Unwin, 1911, 362pp
• Chats on Postage Stamps, Frederick A Stokes Company, American edition, 1911, 362pp
• El nuevo ABC del coleccionista de sellos, Santiago de Cuba, Arroyo Hnos, Castilian edition of The New ABC of Stamp Collecting translated by J D Sague, 1926, 166pp
• Egypt, Stanley Gibbons, London, 1915, 84pp
• Frimärken Värda Förmögenheter, Sveriges Filatelist-Förenings Förlag, Swedish edition of Postage Stamps Worth Fortunes translated by L Harald Kjellstedt, 1910, 43pp
• Great Britain: Reel printing for postage stamps, 1924, 7pp
• Guide to Stamp Collecting, G F Rapkin, 1924, 60pp
• How to Start a Philatelic Society, Peckitt, 1910
• Latvia Map Stamps. A tentative check list, 1922
• Les premières emissions de timbres de la Grande-Bretagne, Mendel, French edition of Great Britain: The Line Engraved Stamps translated by Georges Brunel, 1912
• Les timbres de Gambie, Édition des publications modernes, French edition of Gambia translated by Georges Brunel, 1914
• Les timbres de la Jamaïque, Édition des publications modernes, French edition of Jamaica translated by Georges Brunel, 1914
• Modern Stamp Collecting, English Universities Press Ltd, 1940, 316pp
• New Hebrides, C Baldwin, c1910, 20pp
• Phantom Philately; a descriptive list of stamps that are not what they seem, Emile Bertrand, 1950, 204pp (with a foreword by Lowell Ragatz)
• Pioneer Stamp Men of Liverpool, W G Warner, 1926, 19pp
• Postage Stamp Printing, Pardy, 1925, 19pp
• Postage Stamps in the Making, Stanley Gibbons, 1916, 198pp
• Postage Stamps of the Hawaiian Islands in the Collection of Henry J. Crocker of San Francisco, Stamp Lover, 1908, 9pp
• Postage Stamps of the United States of America, Junior Philatelic Society, 1905, 116pp
• Postage Stamps worth Fortunes, (self published), 1908, 46pp
• Postage Stamps worth Fortunes, Severn-Wylie-Jewett Co, American edition, 1918
• Rare stamps: How to Recognize Them, Melville Book Co, 1922, 46pp
• Siam: Its Posts and Postage Stamps, Stamp Collectors' Fortnightly, 1906, 53pp.
• Stamp Collecting, 1897.
• Stamp Collections for War Museums, Stanley Gibbons, 1918, 40pp
• Stamps of the Steamship Companies: A Rough List, 1915, 34pp
• The ABC of Stamp Collecting, Henry J Drane, 1903, 159pp
• The Boys Friend Book of Stamps of the British Empire, 1925, 19pp
• The Cradle of the Postage Stamp, Harmer Rooke, 1923 30pp
• The Lady Forger: an original play, Junior Philatelic Society, 1906
• The Mayfair find of Rare Stamps, H R Harmer, 1925, 44pp
• The Mystery Of the Shilling Green, Chas Nissen & Co Ltd, 1926, 16pp
• The New ABC of Stamp Collecting, Melville Stamp Company, 1922, 145pp
• The Postage Stamp in War, 1915, 160pp
• The Postage Stamps of British Central Africa, Severn-Wylie-Jewett, 1918, 28pp
• The postage stamps of China; with a history of the Chinese Imperial Post, 1908, 44pp
• The Postage Stamps of Great Britain, Junior Philatelic Society, 1904, 56pp
• The Postage Stamps of Hayti, C Nissen & Co, 1905, 69pp
• The Postage Stamps of Sarawak 1869-1906, C Nissen & Co, 1907, 84pp
• The Postage Stamps of the Cayman Islands, Severn-Wylie-Jewett, 1920, 22pp
• The Romance of Postage Stamps, W.H. Peckitt, London, 1910, 36pp
• The Romance of Postage Stamps: A Short Introduction to the Joys of the Stamp album, Peckitt, 1908, 30pp
• The Soldier and His Stamps Together with the Junior Philatelic Society's Roll of Honour, Stanley Gibbons, 1918, 60pp.
• The Tapling Collection of Stamps and Postal Stationery at the British Museum, 1905.
• The Wm. H. Crocker Collection of rare stamps of the whole World, Harmer Rooke & Co., 1938, 42pp
• The World's Stamp Errors Part I The British Empire, W H Peckitt, 1910, 59pp (under pseudonym Miss Fitte)
• The World's Stamp Errors Part II Foreign Countries, W H Peckitt, 1910, 50pp (under pseudonym Miss Fitte)
• Then and Now, Whitfield King, 1938, 43pp
• United States Postage Stamps 1847-1869, Stanley Gibbons, 3rd edition 1915, 71pp
• United States Special Service Stamps, Stanley Gibbons, 1915, 69pp
• War Stamps of Salonika & Long Island, Stanley Gibbons, 1916, 54pp

References

1. "Fred Melville Biography" by Michael Goodman in Furnell, Michael., ed. National Philatelic Society Centenary Handbook. London: National Philatelic Society, 1999, pp.8-10. ISBN 0-906291-02-X

Further reading

• Williams, L.N. & M., A "Melville" Bibliography, H.F. Johnson, London, 1941. (Reprinted with additions and amendments from The Stamp Lover, January to May, 1941.)