2-756-366 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

'Inn and Post Office', 1830, (1943). A group of men stand outside the Coach and Horses Inn. Stables or inns were used as posts for the despatch and reception of mail by horse or coach, and thus became known Post-Offices. Engraving from "Voyage en Angleterre" written and illustrated by Eugène Louis Lami and Monnier. Published in "English Inns", by Thomas Burke. [Collins, London, 1943]