This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 Excerpt: ...to Mr. Bayard. In these days Rowland Hill achieved his great reform in postage. He insisted that a letter could be carried anywhere in the United Kingdom for a penny, and that in a few years the increased multitude of letters would cover the increased expenditure. When the measure for the reduction of postage passed in ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1897 Excerpt: ...to Mr. Bayard. In these days Rowland Hill achieved his great reform in postage. He insisted that a letter could be carried anywhere in the United Kingdom for a penny, and that in a few years the increased multitude of letters would cover the increased expenditure. When the measure for the reduction of postage passed in Parliament, an offer was made by Government to all artists and others to come forward and give plans for carrying it into effect. The idea was that each letter must be put into a Government envelope. Mulready's envelope won the prize. It may be seen still in stamp albums, so covered with the design that there is little room left for an address. Britannia sits enthroned, scattering letters to the four quarters of the globe. There are several pretty groups, --a girl reading her lover's letter, an old Scotch peasant receiving one from his soldier son, etc. I think we used them two or three weeks, and then the Post-Office substituted the present stamp, --" Queen's heads," we used to call them, --the invention of which was due to a young employee. I said that the revolutions of 1848 stirred up considerable revolutionary feeling in Great Britain. In Ireland it took the form of an armed demonstration by Young Ireland, led by Mr. Smith O'Brien, who had failed to get either material aid or sympathy from Lamartine. But the Red Republican clubs in France were loud in their declarations that thirty thousand Frenchmen ought to assist his cause. However, without French help, his battle, was fought in Tipperary in Widow Cormack's cabbage-garden, when, the rebel army having been dispersed by a handful of police, the insurrection was over. The practical form that revolutionary fervor took in England was advocacy of the charter. As far back as 1835, Cha...
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Good. Dark green cloth decoratively stamped in gilt; numerous b&w plates with tissue overlays. Former owner's name on front endpaper; spine ends and corners slightly worn, bottom edges dented and rubbed, else a clean, tight copy.
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Good. 451pp. Green cloth cover with gilt titles, light cover wear and cloth chipping at the board corners, endpapers cracked at the hinges, binding sound. Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-9¾" Tall E8.
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Good Plus. No Jacket as Expected. An original 1899 fifth edition. Matches others in this series of blue cloth with gilt spine titles & gilt decoraton on cover and frontis plates with tissue guards. This copy has a few small fade spots to covers. Size: 8vo-over 7¾"-10" Tall.
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Gift Quality. 5.75X8.25. Rebound in beatiful marbled boards with leather spines and corners circa 1920, black and white illustrations, gilt on spine, previous owners book plate on inside of front cover _PAB_
