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Penny postage centenary; an account of Rowland Hill's great reform of 1840 and of the introduction of adhesive postage stamps, with chapters on the birth of the postal service

Title: Penny postage centenary; an account of Rowland Hill's great reform of 1840 and of the introduction of adhesive postage stamps, with chapters on the birth of the postal service, edited by Samuel Graveson.
Author: Graveson, Samuel.
Publication: London, The Postal history society [1940]

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Postal History Society.

Description

144 p. front., illus., plates, ports., facsims.; 26 cm.

Subject

Note

Maps on lining-papers.

Contents

Milestones in postal history, by R. K. Wortley.--The birth of the postal service, by C. R. Clear.--"A stamp is invented," by F. W. Bond.--Rowland Hill: a biographical note, by C. R. Clear.--The postal reform of 1840, by S. Graveson.--The Mulready envelope, by S. Graveson.--Four centuries of the British posts; some men and dates, by the editor.--The birth of the adhesive postage stamp, by Robson Lowe.--The Bruce castle postal museum, Tottenham, by C. H. Rock.--Universal postal union, by Robson Lowe.

Call Number

TV (Graveson, S. Penny postage centenary)

LCCN

41005287

OCLC

8472932

Author

Graveson, Samuel.

Title

Penny postage centenary; an account of Rowland Hill's great reform of 1840 and of the introduction of adhesive postage stamps, with chapters on the birth of the postal service, edited by Samuel Graveson.

Imprint

London, The Postal history society [1940]

Added Author

Postal History Society.

Research Call Number

TV (Graveson, S. Penny postage centenary)

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