Morison, Stanley

THE ENGLISH NEWSPAPER: Some account of the physical development of journals printed in London between 1622 & the present day.

Pp. xii+336(last blank), frontispiece, plus 5 plates (1 tinted, 1 folding), numerous text figures (many full page), decorative initials, appendix, indices; f'cap. folio; red/brown cloth, lettered and decorated in gilt, fore-corners of boards lightly bruised, the lower board a trifle flecked; dust wrapper, edges lightly rubbed and split, the backstrip slightly creased and browned; book label of David Levine, Sydney, on upper pastedown, free endpapers faintly offset; a couple of spots of foxing; Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1932. First edition. *The Sandars Lectures, describing the development of the English newspaper. Item #164058

Price: $300.00