book-post

Enclose a stamped and addressed envelope -- not a book-post wrapper; manuscripts which see much of the world (and your earlier manuscripts will probably see a very great deal of the world) become damaged and ruinous by travelling in a book-post wrapper.

Journalism for Women A Practical Guide Arnold Bennett 1899

Then we have books from the subscription library in Florence, and sights of the 'Cornhill,' and political pamphlets by the book-post; nay, even the 'Spiritual Magazine,' sent by Chapman and Hall, in the last number of which that clever and brave William Howitt

The Letters of Elizabeth Barrett Browning Browning, Elizabeth B 1898

'Be so good as to tell me what this will cost by book-post.'

The House of Cobwebs and Other Stories George Gissing 1880

The paper came back for three-halfpence by book-post.

Robert F. Murray: His Poems with a Memoir Andrew Lang 1878

They have kindly printed and given to me some extra copies of my preface, one of which I will forward to you by the book-post.

Reminiscences of Scottish Life and Character Ramsay, Edward B 1874

I send you to-day four sheets by book-post, “The Aryans in Asia;” for I cannot finish it without your personal help.

Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities 1861

They were taken to the book-post on Monday evening, the 16th, a week ago, and sent off.

Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities 1861

(We have a contract here with France, which gives us a sort of book-post.)

Chips From A German Workshop. Vol. III. Essays on Literature, Biography, and Antiquities 1861

I should like to have it back for a time, just to hear a little what it is about, if you would be so kind as to return it by book-post.

More Letters of Charles Darwin — Volume 2 Charles Darwin 1845

-- I sent you last week a little book by book-post.

The Correspondence of Thomas Carlyle and Ralph Waldo Emerson, 1834-1872, Vol II. Thomas Carlyle 1838