Adhesive postage stamps and stamped stationery of the present issue will also be on sale at Post Offices until the remaining stocks are exhausted. All Edward VII postage stamps and all stamps of previous issues which are at present available in payment of postage will still be available The following reductions in the prices of the principal articles of stamped stationery WHICH WILL APPLY TO ARTICLES BOTH OF THE PRESENT AND THE NEW ISSUES, will take effect on Coronation Day: POST-CARDS.--Thin post-cards bearing ½d. stamp--½d. each (Stout post-cards will continue to be sold at 6d a packet of 11, or ¾d. for a single card) LETTER CARDS bearing 1d. stamp--1d. each. BOOKS OF STAMPS--Books containing eighteen 1d. and twelve ½d. stamps of George V design will be issued at an early date--price 2s. each. Pending their issue the present books, containing eighteen 1d. and eleven ½d stamps of Edward VII. design, will, on and after the 22nd of June, be sold for 1s. 11½d instead of 2s. as at present. EMBOSSED ENVELOPES-- Court size (bearing 1d. stamp)--1s. a packet of 11 Commercial size (bearing 1d. stamp)--2s. a packet of 23 Foolscap size (bearing ½d stamp)--1s. a packet of 21. Commercial size (bearing ½d. stamp)--1s. a packet of 22. NEWSPAPER WRAPPERS--(Bearing ½d stamp)--1s. a packet of 22. (Bearing 1d. stamp)--2s a packet of 23. All cards, envelopes and wrappers are sold in any quantities less than a complete packet at proportionate prices. Full tables of these prices will appear in the Post Office Guide issued on the 1st of July. GENERAL POST OFFICE. 20th June, 1911. By Command of the Postmaster General. (1120) Printed for His Majesty's Stationery Office by W P Griffith & Sons Ld. Prujean Square. Old Bailey, E C. 6/11] FOOTNOTES: [9] "Fifty Years of Public Life," p. 63. [10] Illustrated in "British Central Africa and Nyasaland Protectorate," by Fred J. Melville, 1909. [11] See further in "The Postage Stamps of the Fiji Islands," by Charles J. Phillips, 1908. [12] See the obituary of Charles Heath in _The Art Journal_, 1849, p. 20, and the argument in my "Great Britain: Line-engraved Stamps." [13] I mention these and certain other quotations, not as standard valuations, but to indicate the comparative importance of these and other factors in determining the rarity of individual specimens. VI ON LIMITING A COLLECTION CHAPTER VI ON LIMITING A COLLECTION The difficulties of a general collection--The unconscious trend to specialism--Technical limitations: Modes of production; Printers--Geographical groupings: Europe and divisions--Suggested groupings of British Colonies--United States, Protectorates and Spheres of Influence--Islands of the Pacific--The financial side of the "great" philatelic countries.