# Frederick Booty

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{{Short description|English artist and author (1841–1924)}}
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right|thumb|The cover of Booty's first illustrated stamp catalogue.[[File:Frederick William Booty catalogue.jpg|right|thumb|A hand-drawn page from Booty's catalogue showing early  Malta and Mauritius stamps but not the famous [Mauritius "Post Office"](/source/Mauritius_%22Post_Office%22)]]
'''Frederick William Booty''' (1841 – 13 October 1924)<ref name=scho>Schofield, Brian. ''Who Was Who in British Philately''. London: [British Philatelic Trust](/source/British_Philatelic_Trust), 2003, p.10. {{ISBN|1-871777-14-3}} [http://www.abps.org.uk/Home/Who_Was_Who/index.xalter Online version here] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110713234319/http://www.abps.org.uk/Home/Who_Was_Who/index.xalter |date=2011-07-13 }}</ref> was an English artist who was also the author of the first postage [stamp catalog](/source/stamp_catalog)ue in English,<ref name=evo>"Evolution of the Postage Stamp: Exhibition at Brighton" in ''The Times'', 9 January 1920, p.8.</ref> and the first illustrated stamp catalogue anywhere.

== Education ==
Booty was born in [Brighton](/source/Brighton), Sussex, the son of Edward and Fanny Booty.<ref>''England & Wales, Civil Registration Birth Index, 1837-1915''</ref> He later worked as an art professor in Yorkshire.<ref>''1881 England Census''</ref>

== Stamp catalogues ==
Booty's ''Aids to Stamp Collectors, being a list of British and Foreign Postage Stamps in Circulation since 1840 - by a Stamp Collector'', was published in April 1862,<ref name=evo/> just weeks before [Mount Brown](/source/Mount_Brown_(philatelist)) issued his more successful work, and when Booty was in his early twenties.<ref name=stamp>''The Stamp Lover'', Vol.1, No.1, June 1908, pp.5.</ref> The catalogue was partly based on earlier works produced in Belgium and France.<ref name=scho/>

Later in 1862, Booty was also the first to issue an illustrated catalogue, titled ''The Stamp Collector’s Guide; being a list of English and Foreign Postage Stamps, with 200 fac-simile drawings''. This edition listed 1100 stamps<ref name=stamp/> and Booty drew all of the illustrations himself.<ref name=birch>Birch, Brian. ''Biographies of Philatelists and Dealers''. 9th edition. Standish, Wigan: 2008, p.238.</ref> He reportedly used half a million stamps to compile the catalogue.<ref>Morgan, Helen. ''Blue Mauritius: The Hunt for the World's Most Valuable Stamps''. London: Atlantic Books, 2006, p.33. {{ISBN|1-84354-435-0}}.</ref>

Booty also contributed to the ''Monthly Advertiser'', published by Edward Moore & Co., in 1862.

These catalogues appear to have been a business venture, capitalising on Booty's artistic skills, as there is no evidence that Booty was a [philatelist](/source/philatelist).
right|thumb|"Whitby", a watercolour painting by Frederick Booty from 1886.

== Art ==
Booty's watercolour landscape pictures are still regularly featured in art auctions in Britain. Although originally based in Brighton, his later work is mainly of scenes from [Yorkshire](/source/Yorkshire), including [Hull](/source/Kingston_upon_Hull) and the ports of [Scarborough](/source/Scarborough%2C_North_Yorkshire) and [Whitby](/source/Whitby). Harbour scenes were a popular subject with Booty.   He also painted Yorkshire panoramas and the peacocks at [Haddon Hall](/source/Haddon_Hall), [Derbyshire](/source/Derbyshire).<ref>[http://www.findartinfo.com/search/listprices.asp?sort=&keyword=98180&page=1&pageno=1 Art auction results for Frederick Booty. Retrieved 23 March 2010.] [https://web.archive.org/web/20110711003107/http://www.findartinfo.com/search/listprices.asp?sort=&keyword=98180&page=1&pageno=1 Archived at WebCite here.]</ref>

==See also==
*[Alfred Potiquet](/source/Alfred_Potiquet) Author of the world's first illustrated stamp catalogue published 1861.

== Publications ==
*''Aids to Stamp Collectors, being a list of British and Foreign Postage Stamps in Circulation since 1840 - by a Stamp Collector''. 1st edition, H.& C. Treacher, Brighton, April 1862. (2nd edition 1862)
*''The Stamp Collector’s Guide; being a list of English and Foreign Postage Stamps, with 200 fac-simile drawings''. 1st edition, H. & C. Treacher, Brighton, & Hamilton, Adams & Co., London, 1862.

== References ==
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== Further reading ==
*"The Frederick Booty bibliography" in ''The Stamp Lover'', 1909.

== External links ==
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*[http://www.abps.org.uk/Home/Who_Was_Who/index.xalter Profile at Who Was Who in British Philately.] [https://web.archive.org/web/20110713234319/http://www.abps.org.uk/Home/Who_Was_Who/index.xalter Archive here]
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