author
Henry Sampson
1841–1891
An English editor, writer, and newspaper proprietor whose best-known work traces the long, colorful history of advertising. His writing mixes research with a lively interest in print culture and public life.
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A History of Advertising from the Earliest Times.
by Henry Sampson
About the author
Born in Lincoln in 1841, Henry Sampson built a career in journalism and publishing in Victorian England. He is generally described as an editor, writer, and newspaper proprietor, and he is best remembered today for A History of Advertising from the Earliest Times, first published in the 1870s.
That book stands out as an ambitious early survey of advertising, gathering anecdotes, historical examples, and biographical notes into a broad account of how advertising developed over time. It remains the work most closely associated with his name and is still accessible through major digital archives.
Sampson died in 1891. A reliable portrait image was not clearly available from the source page I could confirm, so no profile image is included here.