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The Post Office London directory

Archive Print Item: Bedford Collection G083

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Type of record: Book

Title: The Post Office London directory

Other titles: Streets, Commercial Trade and Court; Streets and Commercial; Trades and Court; Commercial; Trades; Court; County Suburbs

Level: Item

Classmark: Bedford Collection G083

Additional creator(s): Bedford, John Victor (1941-2019) (Former owner); Great Britain. Post Office (Issuing body); Guildhall Library (London, England) (Former owner)

Publisher: Printed and published for Frederic Kelly, proprietor, by W. Kelly & Co., 19 & 20 Old Boswell Court, Temple Bar, and sold by all booksellers

Publication city: London

Language: English

Size and medium: volumes

Persistent link: https://explore.library.leeds.ac.uk/special-collections-explore/741576

Printed items catalogue: https://leeds.primo.exlibrisgroup.com/discovery/fulldisplay?vid=44LEE_INST:VU1&docid=alma991000729789705181

Description

1843-1877, 1880-1881, 1884, 1888, 1890, 1892, 1894-1895, 1900, 1902-1919, 1922-1927, 1931, 1933, 1936-1938, 1940-1946, 1948-1951, 1953-1975, 1977-1991


Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection G083: Printed volumes issued annually, but were later bound in dark blue library binding with various spine titles: Streets, Commercial Trade and Court; Streets and Commercial; Trades and Court; Commercial; Trades; Court; County Suburbs. Thus, some years appear in more than one volume.


Description based on: 1843; title from title page.

Provenance

Leeds University Library copy at Bedford Collection G083: From the John Evan Bedford Library, gifted in 2019. Twenty-first-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: John Evan Bedford. Many volumes have twentieth-century pictorial bookplate on front pastedown: Gvildhall Library London. All volumes stamped: Guildhall Library London Withdrawn. Some volumes have MS. inscription: Reading Room Guildhall London.

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