£450
Postal History. The working archive scrapbook of Herbert Joyce, author of 'The History of the Post Office', London, 1893, compiled c. 1890 and including early 18th-late 19th century ephemera and manuscripts, including [1683] Charles II double-sided 'broadside' "An Answer to a Case, Lately printed and delivered to several Members of this Honourable House, by Mr. William Dockwra Merchant, Concerning the Penny-Post [...]", slight and stable centre tear, enclosed within a 19th century foolscap manuscript transcript of the case, three copies of the London Gazette, nos. 1835, June 1683, 1916, March 1684, & 3247, December 1696, a 1796 copy of The London Chronicle, four MS ALS addressed to Thomas de Grey, 2nd Baron Walsingham (1748-1818) as Joint Postmaster General (1787-94), two from John Palmer (1742-1818), the others addressed from Daniel "Honest" Braithwaite and another official at the General Post Office, ALS correspondence to and from George Shaw Lefevre, 1st Baron Eversley (1831-1928) as Postmaster General (1884-85), further letters, early 19th century etching of the Royal Exeter Mail, tipped-in clippings from 18th and 19th century periodicals viz. post and mail coaches, etc., disbound folio, loose in places.
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