The Post Office of fifty years ago :
containing reprint of Sir Rowland Hill's famous pamphlet, dated 22nd February, 1837, proposing penny postage : with facsimile of the original sketch for the postage stamp, and other documents.
Talbot Collection of British Pamphlets

Description

Main Author

Hill, Pearson.

Related Names

Hill, Rowland, Sir, 1795-1879.

Language(s)

English

Published

London ; Cassell & Company, Limited, [1887]

Subjects

Postal rates > Postal rates / Great Britain.
Postal service > Postal service / Great Britain > Postal service / Great Britain / History.

Note

By Pearson Hill: cf. Dictionary of national biography, v. 9, p. 871.
With a half-title.
Plate is frontispiece portrait of Sir Rowland Hill.
"Note.--All profits on the sale of this Work go to the Rowland Hill Benevolent (Post Office) Fund."

Physical Description

[8], 48, vii, [1], 104 p., [1] leaf of plates : 1 facsim., 1 port. ; 21 cm.

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