INVENTORY #162181
The Royal Mail: Its Curiosities and Romance
HYDE, James Wilson
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James Wilson Hyde, an official of the Edinburgh Post Office, wrote this historical and anecdotal account of the United Kingdom's postal service. Topic include old roads, stage and mail coaches, mail packets, shipwrecked mail, pigeon post, strange addresses, post office robberies, telegraphic blunders, lost letters, odd complaints and strange letters, red tape, much more.
Publication Info
- Publisher: Simpkin, Marshall and Co.
- Edition: Third Edition
- Date Published: 1889
- Place Published: London
- ISBN: n/a
Details
- Condition: Good
- Signed: No
- Dust Jacket: No
- Jacket Condition: n/a
- Details:
xvi, 306, 4 p. 19 cm. B&w illustrations. Red cloth wth black impressing and gold lettering. Corners and spine ends worn. Hole in rear hinge. Some soiling to cloth. Slight spine lean. Hinges cracked internally. Front free endpaper coming loose. Spot on front endpapers affecting frontispiece and title slightly.