Michele 
This booklet, "Cartophilic Reference Book - No.9 : The Cigarette Card Issues of Lambert & Butler - An Official Checklist Compiled by A Committee of the Cartophilic Society of Great Britain Limited" (or RB.9), was edited by Edward Wharton-Tigar, and signed off in January 1948.
It was then printed, though there is not a word of whom by, as a booklet of thirty-two pages, and twenty-five illustrations - and published as a limited edition of four hundred copies, in 1948, to be retailed, to Society members, at five shillings.
Like all our individual reference booklets, it was superseded by The World Tobacco Issues Index (RB.21), which was issued in 1956.
However we know that after that time these books still remained in stock as when the Cameric Club merged with the Cartophilic Society, this was amongst the books listed as part of a half price offer, so that former Camericans, and new members, could buy one. By that time the normal retail price had risen to five shillings and sixpence, but the offer reduced it to two shillings and nine pence.
This Reference Book was the first to be written by Edward Wharton-Tigar, our new editor, and it was published in 1948 as a limited edition of 400 copies. No printer appears on the original book.
One of the most interesting things about this volume is that it contains this long list of books already issued, plus the Churchman which had not yet been - and a list of books to come...
Sadly the majority of these never appeared. The ones that did were only those with the asterisks, stated to be earmarked for 1948 - Ogden, Godfrey Phillips, James Taddy, Wills part two - plus the un-asterisked John Player. The rest formed the foundation of the World Tobacco Issues Index
When this later reprint was produced, the decision was made to redo the cover into a plainer green format, but all the interior text remains the same.
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