272 pp. - more than 600 colour illustrations - format cm 21x29,7 - high quality glossy paper - hardbound - printed 2017
series "History through documents"
Italian text
ALSO AS FREE BOOK (class C)
ISBN: 978-88-96381-15-1
THE POSTAL REFORM OF 1863 IN THE KINGDOM OF ITALY
Laws, Agreements, Documents, Rates
The Postal Reform of 1863 marked a turning point in the Italian postal context. The birth of the Kingdom of Italy compelled the Legislator to elaborate a rule which, after all, would not displease anyone from North to South.
The Law of 5 May 1862, n.604, which reformed the postal system, cannot be regarded as an end in itself but merely as a link between a fragmentary pre-unity postal period and a modern one after the unity of Italy. For this reason, the historical exegesis of every content is essential, by verifying all the transformations that regulations have undergone in the years before and after 1863 directly from the original texts.
The Author investigates this important historical moment in a new way, to leave the pleasure of personally verifying the legislative sources to scholars and collectors. More than 600 colour images, indeed, show, in original, more than 80 laws, agreements and decrees reported in full or with the most significant and relevant articles that retrace postal regulations from 1818 to 1888, highlighting the evolution that the various rules have undergone over the years.
This process is accompanied by more than 250 postal documents that testify the regulatory changes that have taken place mainly with regard to rates but without neglecting dates, routes and historical news.
The volume, elaborated with material from the Author's own collections, set up in many years of passionate researches, ends with a detailed list of all laws and decrees in chronological order.
CONTENTS
Foreword by Paolo Vaccari
Author's note
INTRODUCTION
* Regulation and currency unification in the Kingdom of Italy
* Pre-unity postal laws
* Unification and reorganization of the postal service
* Postal rate of 15 centimes in force from 1st January 1863
* Post-free
* New rules for underfranked letters
* Delivery of mail
* Postal frauds
* Registered and insured letters
* Letters to soldiers in service
* Mail to foreign countries
* Postal sea routes
* Goods samples
* Circular letters, printed matter and newspapers
* Postal rate of 20 centimes in force from 1st January 1865
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