£600 - £700
GB.PRE - STAMP 1819 "A PLAN FOR OBTAINING A MORE SPEEDY POSTAGE COMMUNICATION between London and the Distant of the Kingdom, Henry Burgess" printed London 1819. A 60pp small- format volume bound in original board includes a coloured map of England with the routes of the extra posts & the principal circles of commercial interest. A fascinating and clearly readable work which attempted to improve the posts in a very different way to Rowland Hill. Rare, provenance 2006 Bloomsbury Auctions sold for £1011.
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