W.H. [William Henry] Ashurst, Facts and Reasons In Support of Mr. Rowland Hill's Plan for a Universal Penny Postage,  London, 1838.

first ed., 1838, viii + 95 p.
   -- GK entry number 30666.3, Reel 2815.
second ed., 1838, viii + 133 p., preface dated June 1838.
   http://books.google.com/books?id=hHdbAAAAQAAJ  [Oxford]
   http://books.google.com/books?id=1DFcAAAAQAAJ  [Oxford]
   http://books.google.com/books?id=QpRdAAAAcAAJ  [British Library]
   -- GK entry number 30540, Reel 2812.


Crawford Catalogue,

• The "essay of letter-sheet" is inserted opposite page 30 in the first edition, and between pages 42 and 43 in the second edition, with a printed address.

Locations,

• ed. 1, NPM
• ed. 2, CCNY
• ed. not specified, RPSL

See also,

• a partial transcription.  link.
• a brief mention, Tait's Edinburgh Magazine, Oct. 1838, vol. 5, p. 674.  link.
• "Mr. Ashurst has published a most useful pamphlet, in support of Mr. Rowland Hill's scheme of postage.  It exhausts the entire question, and leaves the opponents of the cheap rate not a leg to stand on."
  
• Philbrick and Westoby, The Postage and Telegraph Stamps of Great Britain, 1881, pp. 274-275.  link.
  

William Henry Ashurst, 1792–1855

• Wikipedia, largely from the Dictionary of National Biography, 1885, with a portrait from the National Portrait Gallery
  
• William Henry Ashurst : a brief record of his life, by his daughter Emilie Ashurst Venturi; see especially pages 14-15.
  
• His son, also named William Henry Ashurst, 1819-1879, was appointed Solicitor to the Post Office in Nov. 1862.
  

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