The Newspaper Press; Its Origin, Progress and Present Position
by James Grant
Format: Paperback
ISBN13: 9781150188688
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This historic book may have numerous typos, missing text or index. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. 1871. Not illustrated. Excerpt: ... CHAPTER IV. NEWSPAPERS IN THE BEGINNING OP THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. Contributors to the Journals--First Daily Paper--Favourite Newspaper Titles--Strange Titles--Daniel Defoe--Newspaper Stamp Duty--Dean Swift--the Taller and Spectator Class of Journals -- Sir Richard Steele and Joseph Addison--John Dunton--John Dennis. Though, in adverting to the curious advertisements which appeared in the newspapers of an early date, and transferring to my pages some specimens ot them, as illustrating the manners of the times, I have made in that respect an incursion, if I may so call it, into the first half of the eighteenth century, --I have not in other respects brought the newspaper history of our ancestors further down than the close of the seventeenth century. And though I have found no materials until the beginning of the eighteenth century which would enable us to form an opinion as to the position of editors--once called printers--of the newspapers of a previous date, yet in the early part of that century we begin to have our darkness enlightened on the subject. In the year 1704 a paper called the Observator, of great circulation and popularity --great, I mean, in that day--was prosecuted for a libel. Whether this was the same Observator that Vol. i. 6 was started by Sir Koger l'Estrange in 1681, I have been unable to ascertain, not having succeeded in procuring a sight of the Observator of either date; but be that as it may--and it is not a matter of much importance, whichever way the fact may be--an action was brought, in 1704, against the printer and publisher, then always one and the same person, for a libel on a man of some note at that time. In the course of the cross-examination of the party who acted as editor of the newspaper in question, it transpired that all ..
| ISBN-13 | 9781150188688 |
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| ISBN-10 | 1150188685 |
| Weight | 0.75 Pounds |
| Dimensions | 9.00 x 6.00 x 0.52 In |
| List Price | $19.66 |
| Format | Paperback |
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| Pages | 226 pages |
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| Published On | 2009-12-01 |
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