Author: [Sir Rowland Hill]
Title: Principal Streets and Places in London and Its Environs, As Divided Into Postal Districts
Description: London, George E. Eyre and William Spottiswoode, 1857. First edition. Cloth. The first edition of this scarce important volume of the division of London into postal districts in the Victorian era. The first edition of this scarce work.Illustrated with one folding map, and ten maps. Collated, complete.An important work looking at the principal streets of London and its surrounding areas, and how they were divided into the new system of postal districts.The city was first divided into postal districts in 1857 and 1858, a revolutionary plan that was devised by Sir Rowland Hill. This is an important work promoting the divisions and how it made the postal system more efficient. Pages 17 to 78 contain a comprehensive index of all the principal streets and places in London, alongside their newly devised postal districts.Smartly rebound in cloth, with the original paper to the front wrap bound in to the front. Institutional presentation to the reverse of the original front wrap. Rebound in a modern cloth binding, with new endpapers. Externally, smart. Only a few very light marks to the boards and spine. Stamp to the recto of the front endpaper. Internally, firmly bound. with an amaetur repair to the gutter of a few pages. Pages are lightly age-toned with some scattered spots. Original front wrap is reinforced, and rubbed and spotted. The occasional institutional stamp to the text. Very Good . Ill.: Not Stated. Very Good .

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