Lot 2023 , Hill, Sir Rowland and Hill, George Birkbeck - The Life of Sir Rowland Hill ... and the History of Penny Postage ... 2 vols, 6 plates (incl. a 2 leaf facsimile); newly rebound red calf, blind decorated panelled spines gil

° Hill, Sir Rowland and Hill, George Birkbeck - The Life of Sir Rowland Hill ... and the History of Penny Postage ... 2 vols, 6 plates (incl. a 2 leaf facsimile); newly rebound red calf, blind decorated panelled spines gilt lettered direct. Thos. De La Rue & Co., 1880; Dendy Marshall, C.F. - The British Post Office: from its beginnings to the end of 1925. 35 plates and text illus.; publisher's cloth and d/wrapper, 4to. Oxford University Press, 1926; Lillywhite, Bryant - London Coffee Houses ... num. facsimile and other plates; publisher's cloth and d/wrapper, roy.8vo. 1963; Huggins, Alan and Holyoake, Alan - The Mulready Postal Stationery ... coloured portrait frontis and coloured illus. throughout; publisher's cloth and d/wrapper, 4to. GB Philatelic Publications 2015; together with other related publications (19)
£140-180

Condition:
Hill - good; new e/ps. xv, 543 and xi, 516pp/ (incl. half titles), both vols. with 8pp. publisher's adverts.; Marshall - some d/w. edge tears, else good. ix, 355pp.; Lillywhite - good; Huggins - good; Others incl. Robinson's British Post Office (Princeton U.P., 1948); Joyce's History of the Post Office ... down to 1836 (1893); Lewin's Her Majesty's Mails (2nd ed., rev. etc., 1865), Hyde's The Early History of the Post in Grant & Farm (1894); Baines's On The Track of the Mail Coach (1895); Tomb's Bristol Royal Mail (Bristol), Report from the Secret Committee of the Post Office (1844)

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