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PREFACE.
CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTORY—NEWSPAPERS AND NEWSPAPER ADVERTISING.
CHAPTER II. INTRODUCTORY—STREET AND GENERAL ADVERTISING.
CHAPTER III. ANCIENT FORMS OF ADVERTISING.
CHAPTER IV. MEDIÆVAL AND OTHER VARIETIES OF ADVERTISING.
CHAPTER V. NEWSPAPER ADVERTISING FORESHADOWED—ITS EARLIEST USE—HOUGHTON’S LESSONS.
CHAPTER VI. DEVELOPMENT OF ADVERTISING.
CHAPTER VII. CONCLUSION OF SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.
CHAPTER VIII. EARLY PART OF EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.
Language
en
Duration
~24 hours (1423K characters)
Publisher of text edition
Project Gutenberg
Credits
Produced by Chris Curnow, Harry Lamé, Stephen Rowland and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
Release date
2017-02-10
Rights
Public domain in the USA.
Subjects
1841–1891
A Victorian journalist and editor with a sharp eye for popular culture, he is best remembered for writing one of the earliest full-length histories of advertising. His work opens a lively window onto newspapers, publishing, and commercial life in 19th-century Britain.
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