New Book: "Masterpieces Of The Mail, 1775-1875"

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Masterpieces of the Mail is a richly illustrated exploration of one hundred years of postal history, told through exceptional original letters and covers from around the world.

The story extends from the improvised and often privately operated mails of the late eighteenth century through the great postal reforms of the nineteenth century: prepaid postage, adhesive stamps, changing postal rates, steamship mails, expanding international routes, and increasingly organized national postal systems.

The emphasis throughout is on art, rarity and postal significance. Many of the pieces illustrated are extraordinary examples, but beauty and rarity alone are not the only reasons. The items have been selected because they tell a story and demonstrate how the postal system worked at a particular place and moment in history.

1775–1875, A century of postal history told through the letters that actually traveled it.