The English Newspaper. Some Account of the Physical Development of Journals Printed in London Between 1622 & the Present Day by MORISON (Stanley)

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1932. Classic reference to early English newspapers. Small folio, (xii), 335pp, frontispiece & folding ills, 6 colotype plates, 156 in text illustrations. Bound in orange gilt cloth, slight rubbing top of spine; small previous owner name at end paper, otherwise bright and clean.

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Good+ in Good dust jacket. 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Some bumping to ends of spine and corners of boards. Knock to top corner of front board. Creasing to top corner of pages. Some spotting to endpapers. Some insect holes to front pastedown, free endpaper and to top corner margins of frontis. Dust wrapper spine faded and browned. Adhesive tape repairs to head of dust wrapper spine and to top front fold of dust wrapper. 1/2" x 2" missing at head of dust wrapper spine. Rubbing to folds of dust wrapper. Dust wrapper protected in archival mylar cover. ; xii, 335 pages + frontis. Red cloth boards with gilt lettering. Page dimensions: 325mm x 223mm. "The Sandars Lectures, here printed, are the first attempt to describe the physical development of the English newspaper from its beginnings in the form of a pamphlet, through the stage of the NewsLetter, The London Gazette and the contemporary press, to the first daily in 1702." - from… Read More

Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1932. Pp. xii+336(last blank), frontispiece, plus 5 plates (1 tinted, 1 folding), numerous text figures (many full page), decorative initials, appendix, indices; f'cap. folio; red/brown cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, fore-corners of boards lightly bruised, the lower board a trifle flecked; dust wrapper, edges lightly rubbed and split, the backstrip slightly creased and browned; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, free endpapers faintly offset; a couple of spots of foxing; Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1932. First edition. *The Sandars Lectures, describing the development of the English newspaper.

Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1932. First Edition. Hardcover. Good cloth copy in a good if somewhat edge-torn (with some loss) and dust-toned dust-wrapper, now mylar-sleeved. Remains quite well-preserved overall; tight, bright, clean and strong. Provenance; from the library of M.S. Howard with the owner's bookplate. Series; Sandars Lectures ; 1932. Physical description; xii, 335 p. : ill. ; 30 cm. Contents; The news-pamphlets, predecessors of the newspapers, 1622-1664 -- The first newspapers, (1665-1695) -- The thrice-weekly posts, (1695-1702) -- The first daily newspaper and the development of the thrice weekly evening posts, (1702-1715) -- The weekly journals I, (1713-1725) -- The weekly journals II, (1727-1742) -- Daily journals, posts & advertisers, &c., (1719-1741) -- Evening journals, (1739-1758) -- The mid-eighteenth century papers, (1748-1770) -- The mature eighteenth century newspaper I, (1770-1781) -- The mature eighteenth century newspaper II, (1786-1789) -- The… Read More