The Philatelic Literature Society (1907–1918)
[''Sir Edward Denny Bacon, KCVO (1860-1938): A short biographical sketch'' by Ron Negus. Supplement to ]The London Philatelist
''The London Philatelist'' was first published in January 1892
by philatelic literature
Philatelic literature is written material relating to philately, primarily information about postage stamps and postal history.
Background to philatelic literature
Philatelic literature is held by stamp collectors and dealers, philatelic soci ...
among philatelist
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s at a time when information about philately could be hard to obtain and philatelic books expensive.
Formation
The first meeting of the society was on 29 October 1907 at St.Bride's Institute in London and Edward Denny Bacon
Sir Edward Denny Bacon, KCVO (29 August 1860 – 5 June 1938)[Biography](_blank)
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, later a President of the Royal Philatelic Society London
The Royal Philatelic Society London (RPSL) is the oldest philatelic society in the world. It was founded on 10 April 1869 as ''The Philatelic Society, London''. The society runs a postal museum, the Spear Museum of Philatelic History, at its he ...
, was appointed its first President.[ He remained in that post until 1914.][ The founding Vice-President was B.T.K. Smith, the Hon. Secretary and Treasurer was F.J. Peplow and the ordinary members were H. Clark, Johnny Johnson, ]Fred Melville
Frederick John Melville (25 February 1882 – 12 January 1940)Schofield, Brian. ''Who Was Who in British Philately''. London: British Philatelic Trust, 2003, p.34. Online versiohere. was a British philatelist, prolific philatelic author and fo ...
and H.E. Weston.["The Philatelic Literature Society" in '']The London Philatelist
''The London Philatelist'' was first published in January 1892
by Crawford Library, written by Bacon, titled ''The Catalogue of the Philatelic Library of the Earl of Crawford, K.T.'', a work which won a Large Gold medal at the ''Postwertzeichen Ausstellung'' stamp exhibition in Vienna in 1911.
[ A supplement to the catalogue was published in 1926 by the PLS and an addenda in the March 1938 edition of '']