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The Post-Office annual directory for 1814 : being a list of more than 17,000 merchants, traders, &c. of London and parts adjacent... : general information relating to the post office, including the last rates of postage : regulations of the twopenny post office, &c. &c

Archive Print Item: Bedford Collection G081

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Type of record: Book

Title: The Post-Office annual directory for 1814 : being a list of more than 17,000 merchants, traders, &c. of London and parts adjacent... : general information relating to the post office, including the last rates of postage : regulations of the twopenny post office, &c. &c

Other titles: Post office annual directory for 1814

Level: Item

Classmark: Bedford Collection G081

Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Maiden, Thomas (Printer); Great Britain. Post Office (Other); Critchett & Woods (Other)

Publisher: Printed by T. Maiden for the proprietors, And sold by J. Richardson, Royal Exchange; J. Asperne, Cornhilll; G. Cowie and Co. Poultry; J. Walker, & Sherwood and Co. and Gale and Co. Paternoster-Row; Black, Parry, and Kingsbury, Leadenhall-Street; C Sharpe,

Publication city: London

Date(s): [1814]

Language: English

Size and medium: [1], 5-426; [12], 144 pages

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/738214

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991019986497605181

Description

At head of title: Under the patronage of His Majesty's Postmaster-General.


A list of names that came too late for insertion precedes text.


2pts in one volume (issued together), with: A New guide to stagecoaches, waggons, carts, vessels, &c. for 1814. London : Printed by T. Maiden for the proprietors, [1814].


Indexed in: Goldsmiths'-Kress library of economic literature, no. 20889.

Features

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection G081: loose excerpt from a sale catalogue for this item.


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Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection G081: contemporary sheep [rubbed].

Provenance

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection G081: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Former reference: TD/111. Nineteenth-century? black inkstamp on front pastedown: A . R . M. [see inscription]. MS. inscription on verso of front flyleaf : A R Montery [?]. MS. annotations on title page, for example, changing 17,000 to 17,999.

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