This new publication by The Royal Philatelic Society London joins a prestigious line of specialized literature reflecting RPSL support for excellence in world class books on a wide range of philately. There is almost no comprehensive Nicaragua literature on revenue and telegraph stamp issues over the past 120 years. Hence this book, eight years in preparation, tries to integrate diverse and often conflicting information, to illustrate and discuss as many of these issues as possible, and identify some of the myths that plague Nicaragua’s problematic philatelic history.

The book covers the nation’s general and special-purpose revenue and telegraph stamp issues printed up to 2010, but also includes new information on issues not previously recorded. It discusses the diversity of printing sources for these stamps and describes postal and telegraph workers pension stamps (including “semana” stamps), stamped revenue paper and the special issues for the Bluefields District and Cabo Gracias a Dios District of the Zelaya Department of eastern Nicaragua. The book includes numerous image examples of essays, proofs and specimens. As many of the original issued stamps of Nicaragua were also repurposed as provisional postal, revenue and telegraph stamps, the author has summarized these issues as well.