Excerpt from History of the Postage Stamps of the United States of America Frequent demands for the translation of the French work have led to the present publication. But as that work was prepared to conform to the general plan of the works compiled for the series of M. Moens' Bibliotheque, it contained manvthings, concerning the history and customs of the post office of the United States, which the American collector is supposed to know, and omitted some details concerning the part played by various col lectors and dealers in finding out the particulars of the history of certain stamps and like matters, which it was thought might be interesting to our home col lectors, but which the impersonal character of the French Series made it advisable to omit in the orig inal compilation. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.