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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, Postal history Society [1940]

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Additional Authors
Postal History Society.
Description
144 pages frontispiece, illustrations, plates, portraits, facsimiles; 26 cm
Subject
  • Hill, Rowland, Sir, 1795-1879
  • Hill, Rowland, Sir, 1795-1879
  • Postal service > Great Britain > History
  • Postage stamps > Great Britain
  • Postage stamps
  • Postal service
  • Great Britain
Genre/Form
History.
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
  • 8472932
  • SCSB-298011
Owning Institutions
Princeton University Library