Description
'ROWLAND HILL, GENIUS AND BENEFACTOR 1795-1879' BY COLIN HEY. A fine copy of this excellent 1989 hardback, 192 pages plus illustrations, chapters entitled: The Hazelwood Breakthrough; The Hill Family; The Colonisation of South Australia; The London and Brighton Railway; Rowland Hill's Postal Reforms; Rowland Hill and Thomas Arnold; The Influence and Message of Hazelwood and A Final Assessment. With appendices: The American Connection; Hillska Skola the Swedish Hazelwood and The Adhesive Stamp and the Penny Black. Fine contents. (Ref 131040).
