Lot no. 20360

GREAT BRITAIN – Hill, Rowland: Post Office Reform; its importance and Practicability (3rd edition 1837), 97 pages with a facsimile of a letter by R. Hill; integrated in this book is: Post Office. The Debate in the House of Commons, on Tuesday, June 27th, 1843, on Sir Thomas Wilde's Motion for a Select Committee (1843), 71 pages, and also by Rowland Hill: The State and Prospects of Penny Postage, as developed in the evidence taken before the Postage Committee of 1842 (1844), 84 pages, all three documents are bound in one half leather hardcover, inside good, the cover is bumped at the edges, nevertheless very rare! PLUS: Patton, Dr. Donald S.: Farthing Delivery. A Fight for cheaper postage (1960), 55 pages, softcover; PLUS: Todd, T.: Wiliam Dockwra and the rest of the Undertakers. The Story of the London Penny Post 1680–82, 156 pages, 38 photo plates, hardcover, good condition. A rare ensemble! Estimate: 200 Euro