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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 (Great Britain)
Description
144 pages : frontispiece, illustrations, plates, portraits, facsimiles; 26 cm
Subject
  • Hill, Rowland, Sir, 1795-1879
  • Postal service > Great Britain > History
  • Postage stamps > Great Britain
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.
LCCN
41005287
OCLC
  • ocm08472932
  • SCSB-4007828
Owning Institutions
Columbia University Libraries