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Graveson, Samuel (editor)
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
Publisher: The Postal History Society, London, 1940
Hardback, original brown cloth, illustrated, 144 pages, covers slightly rubbed, slight corner-crease, slight foxing to the page-edges, a Good reading copy.
Includes a useful chapter by Robson Lowe, “The Birth of the Adhesive Postage Stamp”, which describes and illustrates the Treasury Competition essays of 1839.
£30.00
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