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London : Library Association, 1960. First edition. A bibliography of twentieth-century published material on newspapers and newspaper history - bibliographies, periodicals, histories, surveys, journalism, biographies, etc. Library Association Special Subject List No. 32. With an introduction by Francis Williams.
Demy 8vo. (32)pp. Original stapled wraps; lightly bruised and a little sunned, but a good copy.

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Ithaca : Cornell University Press, (1971). First edition: the American issue. A full-length history of the newspaper from 1821 to 1956 - John Edward Taylor, Jeremiah Garnett, C.P.Scott, A.P.Wadsworth, etc.
Medium 8vo. 702,[ii]pp. Plates. Genealogical tables on endpapers - that at front inserted upside down. Original cloth gilt; very good, clean and sound in just slightly dusty dust-jacket.

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London : Macmillan London, (1972). First edition. Both a life of Stanley Morison (1889-1967) and an authoritative account of typography in the twentieth century - with much incidental material on Lord Astor, R.M. Barrington-Ward, Lord Beaverbrook, Robert Bridges, William Burch, Cambridge University Press, Eric Gill, Victor Gollancz, Edward Johnston, Hans Mardersteig, the Monotype Corporation, Bruce Rogers, Oliver Simon, The Times, D.B.Updike, Beatrice and Frederic Warde, etc.
Foolscap 4to. 566,[ii]pp. Plates. Portraits. Original cloth; mild spotting of edges, but a very good copy in a slightly furled and nicked dust-jacket, with a short tear to upper panel.

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London : South-West Essex Technical College, 1943. First edition. A chronological list of early English news pamphlets, with notes on content, etc., as well as a list of similar material no longer extant, with indices of printers and publishers, persons and subjects.
Post 8vo. (xx),(130),[ii}pp. Original cloth gilt; very good.

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Edinburgh : Oliver & Boyd, 1931. First edition. A survey of the spread and significance of Scottish newspapers and periodicals in the eighteenth century - with a concise account (and a further bibliographical entry) for each publication, etc.
Foolscap 4to. (viii),(114),[ii]pp. Original cloth, lettered on spine in gilt; top edge gilt; slightly bruised and a little bowed; some mild spotting of edges; a very good copy in a slightly nicked dust-jacket, with small areas of surface loss on spine.

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[Croydon] : Croydon Advertiser, [1969]. First edition. Both a history of the local newspaper founded by Jesse Ward in 1869 and an overview of the history of Croydon itself. Loosely inserted is a presentation letter on Croydon Advertiser notepaper.
Demy 4to. [48]pp. Illustrations (some coloured). Facsimiles. Coloured map. Original laminated boards; lightly rubbed and a little bowed, but a good copy.

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London : Bibliographical Society, 1952. First edition. A precise and fully-detailed bibliographical listing of the first generation of the direct forerunners of the English newspaper.
Foolscap 4to. [iv],(284),[iv]pp. Facsimiles. Original linen-backed boards; some spotting of endpapers, but otherwise a very good copy indeed.

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London : John Murray, 1908. First edition. A publisher's presentation copy, and so stamped in blind on the title-pages. A full-scale biography of J. T. Delane (1817-1879), mid-Victorian editor of "The Times", drawing extensively on family papers, correspondence, etc. (Dasent was his nephew) - and with much incidental material on the great and good, the major events of the day - Derby, Disraeli, Gladstone, Palmerston, the Crimea, etc.
Two volumes. Demy 8vo. x,328; (viii),376,6pp. Plates. Original armorial cloth, gilt and enamelled; top edges gilt; very slightly rubbed; a few faint marks; very mild spotting of edges; endpapers a little tanned; but a very good set.

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London : Walthamstow Antiquarian Society, (1955). First edition. An interesting and detailed account of a rich variety of local publishing - with material on twenty-five different local productions from 1870 onwards.
Demy 8vo. [vi],88pp. Plates. Illustrations. Folding chronological table. Original wrappers; very slightly rubbed; slight scuff to upper wrap, but a very good copy.

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Carbondale : Southern Illinois University Press, (1960). First edition. A full-scale study of the workings of an eighteenth-century newspaper - with much incidental material on the rise of the editor, etc.
Foolscap 4to. (xii),(336),[iv]pp. Illustrations. Original cloth; corners just a little bruised, but otherwise very good in a sunned and lightly used dust-jacket.

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London : G. Bell & Sons, 1934. First edition. A presentation copy, inscribed to Samuel Telley, signed and dated (1934) by John Hammond. A full-scale biography of the legendary journalist Charles Prestwich Scott (1846-1932), with specific chapters on women's suffrage, Ireland, the Great War, etc.
Demy 8vo. (xvi),(366),[ii]pp. Plates. Portraits. Original cloth; a little dulled; a few small spots, but a very good and sound copy.

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London : Cecil Palmer, (1923). Second edition : revised. The memoirs of the barrister and journalist - with much on Shirley Brooks, George Meredith, Skittles, James Virtue, and others, together with Hardman on scandals, law-cases and life in London in the 1860s. Edited and annotated by S.M.Ellis. First published earlier in 1923.
Demy 8vo. (xii),316pp. Plates. Portraits. Original cloth; some spotting; plates slightly wrinkled, but otherwise a very good copy in the dust-jacket.

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London : Art & Technics, 1949. First edition. An absorbing sociological survey of British newspapers and their readers in the mid twentieth century - non-readers, who reads what, readers observed, readers tested, etc.
Demy 8vo. 128pp. Tables. Original cloth; slight tanning of endpapers; neat ownership inscriptions; very good in a lightly rubbed and slightly tanned dust-jacket.

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London : Constable & Co., (1921). First edition. A biography of Sir Edward Tyas Cook (1857-1919), the distinguished journalist - and himself the biographer of Ruskin, Florence Nightingale, and Delane of the Times.
Demy 8vo. viii,304pp. Portrait frontispiece. Original cloth; worn at extremities and slightly split at head; some mild tanning and spotting; a few creases; a serviceable copy.

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Newcastle upon Tyne : Frank Graham, [1971]. First edition. The Alnwick Mercury, Durham Chronicle, Hexham Courant, Morpeth Herald, Newcastle Journal, Shields Gazette, Sunderland Sentinel and many more.
Demy 8vo. 236,[ii]pp. Plates. Portraits. Original rexine; a touch bruised; mild spotting of edges, but a very good copy in a just faintly tanned dust-jacket.

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London : The Times, 1920. First edition. An exhaustive and fully indexed chronological listing of all the known English and Welsh newspapers, magazines and periodicals from 1620 to 1919 - including dates of first and last issue, etc. Prefaced by an historical introduction to newspaper history.
Royal 8vo. (214),(lii),215-324,(xxxvi)pp. Original cloth gilt over bevelled boards; just a little rubbed and lightly dulled; neat name on front free endpaper, but a very good, sound and serviceable copy.

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Stirling : Eneas Mackay, 1902. First edition. An entertaining assemblage from the byways of Inverness history - with sections on the site of Macbeth's castle, local characters, the Ness islands, the trial of John Grant, fiddlers, the Inverness post office, James Paterson the poet, popular entertainers, the floods of 1834 and 1849, etc., and with a full and highly informative bibliography of the locally published newspapers and periodicals. Compiled by the Inverness bookseller John Noble, edited, etc., by John Whyte, and with an appendix (expanding the bibliography) by William Mackay.
Demy 8vo. xii,(238)pp. Tissue-guarded plates. Illustrations. Original armorial cloth gilt; top edge gilt; lightly rubbed, a little sunned, and slightly bruised; a few minor marks; a little shaken, but a good copy of a scarce work. Fewer than 110 copies were subscribed for.

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London : Stanley Paul, (1927). First edition. Recollections of a newspaper man (who began on the Stock Exchange) - with much on Edwin Arnold, E.L.Blanchard, the Daily Telegraph, Garibaldi, W.E.Gladstone, Jack the Ripper, C.W.Mathews, the Rothschilds, etc. With an introduction by W.L.Courtney.
Demy 8vo. [vi],302pp. Plates. Illustrations. Original cloth; very good.

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Boston : Richard Kay Publications for the History of Boston Project, 1974. First edition. An interesting account of rich heritage of local newspaper publishing in Lincolnshire. History of Boston series No. 11.
Demy 8vo. (vi),(66)pp. Illustrations. Original stapled wraps; a few slight marks; neat name on verso of upper wrap, but a good copy.

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London : Methuen & Co., (1952). First edition.
Demy 8vo. xii,(418)pp. Plates. Illustrations. Original cloth; very slightly bruised, but a very good copy in a lightly worn and sunned dust-jacket.

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London : Frank Cass & Co., 1966. A facsimile reprint of the original 1929 edition. The standard narrative account of the birth of English journalism, with individual chapters on the earliest official news; personal news; partisan news; popular news; foreign news; news-ballads; news-writers; news-publishers; and the beginnings of newspapers proper.
Royal 8vo. (xii),368pp. Illustrations. Original cloth; very good.

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Leicester : Leicester University Press / Toronto : University of Toronto Press, 1982. First edition. Essays by various hands - on periodical literature; John Ruskin; John Stuart Mill; art exhibitions; literary criticism; radical opinion; Sunderland newspapers; serial publication; pressure groups; labour newspapers; scandalous journalism, etc.
Foolscap 4to. (xx),400pp. Original boards; very good in a slightly worn and used dust-jacket.

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Glasgow : Printed for Private Circulation, [1895]. First and sole edition. A presentation copy, inscribed, signed and dated (1987) on front free endpaper by the author. Considerably more than a personal reminiscence from Alexander Sinclair of the Glasgow Herald (the first Scottish daily), giving an absorbing account of the changing nature of the nineteenth century newspaper trade as a whole - with chapters on advertisements and taxes; stamp duty, paper (taxes, new materials, prices, sizes); editing, reporting, news-agencies; the electric telegraph and its impact; publishing; railways and distribution; compositors; composing machines; stereotyping foundries; machine printing and web presses; the garnering of sports results; newspaper illustration, etc.
Foolscap 4to. [iv],(208)pp. Frontispiece. Illustrations. Original cloth; top edge gilt; a little worn, bumped and bruised; endpapers tanned; a good and serviceable copy of a scarce and valuable work.

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Bolton & London : Tillotson & Son, 1950. First edition. A centenary history of the Lancashire printing, newspaper and carton manufacturing firm founded in Bolton by John Tillotson.
Demy 8vo. x,94pp. Plates. Portraits. Illustrations. Endpaper maps. Very good in lightly used dust-jacket.

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London : Chatto & Windus, 1975. First edition. The influence of the Daily Express and the Daily Mirror on British life and politics. Co-written with Elizabeth Immirzi and Trevor Blackwell. Introduction by Stuart Hall.
Demy 8vo. 262,[ii]pp. Original boards; top edge a little spotted, but otherwise very good in a lightly tanned dust-jacket.

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Birmingham : Birmingham Post & Mail, 1957. First edition. A handsomely produced centenary history - from the Taxes on Knowledge period onwards. With a preface by Lord Iliffe (chairman), and an appendix by W. Vaughan Reynolds (editor).
Royal 8vo. xvi,(256)pp. Illustrations. Original cloth; a little sunned, but otherwise a very good copy.

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London : Bibliographical Society, (1970). First edition. Periodicals from the period of "the war of the unstamped" - those published "in technical violation of the several statues that imposed a stamp duty".
Royal 8vo. (xiv),(76)pp. Original cloth; lower cover somewhat marked, but otherwise a nice copy.

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London : Times Publishing Co., 1935. First edition. An attractively produced and illustrated history of "The Times", from its inception in 1785 as "The Daily Universal Register". With material on Thomas Barnes, John Thadeus Delane, William Hazlitt, John Walter and others, as well as on distribution, paper, photography, typography, etc.
Crown 4to. (viii),(214),[xiv]pp. Plates. Portraits. Facsimiles. Endpaper maps. Original cloth; a few slight signs of age and use, but a very good copy.

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