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,"Fred Melville Biography" by Michael Goodman in Furnell, Michael., ed. National Philatelic Society Centenary Handbook. London: National Philatelic Society, 1999, pp.8-10. 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. The War Stamps of Turkey, S.A., 14p. by Lieut.-Col. H Wood, edited by Fred J. Melville. Philatelic Institute papers; no. 5.

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

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.)