By Douglas Muir

This important study draws on unpublished documents and extensive new research, and offers a fresh insight into the period leading to the issue of the Penny Black and the Mulready covers in 1840.

Douglas N Muir - Curator, Philately at the National Postal Museum- describes the long campaign for postal reform and illustrates his account with a wealth of contemporary designs, proofs and other philatelic material, a generous amount of it in colour.

242 pages

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