Research Catalog

Title

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.

Author

Hill, Pearson

Publication

London ; New York : Cassell & Company, [1887]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Hill, Rowland, Sir, 1795-1879.
• Great Britain. Post Office Rowland Hill Memorial and Benevolent Fund

Description

48, vii, 104 p., [1] leaf of plates : 1 facsim., 1 port.; 22 cm.

Subject

• Postal service > Great Britain > History
• Postal rates > Great Britain

Note

• By Pearson Hill: cf. Dictionary of national biography, v. 9, p. 871.
• LC copy includes a manuscript letter from Pearson Hill to F.A. Philbrick dated 6-5-89 and is inscribed to Philbrick by Hill (July 1887)
• "Post Office reform; its importance and practicability. By Rowland Hill" has special facsim. t.-p.
• "All profits on the sale of this work go to the Rowand Hill Benevolent (Post Office) Fund."

Call Number

TV (Hill, P. Post Office of fifty years ago)

LCCN

84138098 //r932

OCLC

12669774

Author

Hill, Pearson.

Title

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.

Imprint

London ; New York : Cassell & Company, [1887]

Connect to:

Full text available via HathiTrust - Talbot Collection of British Pamphlets

Added Author

Hill, Rowland, Sir, 1795-1879. Post Office reform. 1887.

Great Britain. Post Office Rowland Hill Memorial and Benevolent Fund.

Research Call Number

TV (Hill, P. Post Office of fifty years ago)