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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 (24cm). 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.

£25

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London : Macmillan London, (1972). First edition. Both the best 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 (25cm). 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 the upper panel.

£25

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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 (24cm). (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 and torn dust-jacket, with small areas of surface loss on spine.

£20

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London : Hurst & Blackett, 1885. First edition. The earliest history of the subject, tracing the illustrated periodical from the earliest English news-books to the Victorian illustrated newspapers and magazines. Compiled by Mason Jackson, himself a notable engraver and art editor of the “Illustrated London News” for nearly twenty years.
Demy 8vo (23cm). xii,(364)pp. Numerous illustrations and facsimiles. Original decorative cloth gilt, expertly repaired, restored and refurbished; a few faint marks, but a very good copy. W. H. Smith Library blind-stamp on front free endpaper.

£50

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New York : Augustus M Kelley, 1971. A facsimile reprint of the original 1880 edition. A memoir of James Watson (1799-1874), radical printer and publisher, champion of free speech and a free press. In the “English Book Trade” series.
Demy 8vo (23cm). [xii],(54),[vi]pp. Portrait. Original cloth gilt; faint marking to lower cover, but otherwise a very good, bright and sound copy.

£15

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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 (23cm). 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.

£20

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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 (26cm). (214),(lii),215-324,(xxxvi)pp. Original cloth gilt over bevelled boards; just a little rubbed and lightly dulled, but a very good, sound and serviceable copy. Neat contemporary ownership inscription.

£50

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London : Methuen & Co., (1952). First edition. The absorbing story of the power, reach and influence of a once-great newspaper and particularly of its editors – “one of them went to gaol, one became a viscount, two were knighted, one gained a marble monument, one edited Ruskin in thirty-nine volumes, another the Encyclopaedia Britannica ...”. An essential study of the history of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
Demy 8vo (23cm). xii,(418)pp. Plates. Illustrations. Original cloth; very slightly bruised, but a very good copy in a lightly worn, slightly chipped, and somewhat sunned dust-jacket.

£25

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Philadelphia : University of Pennsylvania Press, 1929. First 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.
Medium 8vo (24cm). (xii),368pp. Frontispiece. Facsimiles. Original quarter cloth, paper label; a few slight marks and signs of use; endpapers a little tanned, but still a very good copy. Contemporary ownership inscription of W. H. Brentnall.

£40

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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 (26cm). (viii),(214),[xiv]pp. Plates. Portraits. Facsimiles. Endpaper maps. Original cloth; a few slight signs of age and use, but a very good copy.

£25

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