Penny postage centenary
Subtitle: 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
By: edited by Samuel Graveson
Contributors: Postal History Society (Great Britain)
Publisher: The Postal history society
Published: 1940
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 144
Subjects: Postal service; History; Postage stamps
Notes: Maps on lining-papers.
Table of contents: title: Milestones in postal history, by R. K. Wortley.; title: The birth of the postal service, by C. R. Clear.; title: "A stamp is invented," by F. W. Bond.; title: Rowland Hill: a biographical note, by C. R. Clear.; title: The postal reform of 1840, by S. Graveson.; title: The Mulready envelope, by S. Graveson.; title: Four centuries of the British posts; some men and dates, by the editor.; title: The birth of the adhesive postage stamp, by Robson Lowe.; title: The Bruce castle postal museum, Tottenham, by C. H. Rock.; title: Universal postal union, by Robson Lowe.