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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.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Hill, Pearson.
- Series:
- Making of the Modern World, Part II : 1851-1914.
- The Making of the Modern World, Part II : 1851-1914
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Postal rates--Great Britain.
- Postal rates.
- Postal service--Great Britain--History.
- Postal service.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (1 unnumbered page, 48, vii, 104 pages, 1 unnumbered leaf of plates) : portrait, facsimiles.
- Place of Publication:
- London ; New York : Cassell & Co., Ltd., [1887]
- Notes:
- Reproduction from the Rare Book and Manuscript Library of Columbia University.
- Attributed to Pearson Hill: cf. Dictionary of national biography, v. 9, p. 871.
- Includes bibliographical references.
- Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Learning, 2011. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements.
- Contains:
- Hill, Rowland, Sir, 1795-1879. Post office reform.
- OCLC:
- 656638046
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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