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The Newspaper Press; Its Origin, Progress and Present Position. (vol.3. the Metropolitan Weekly and Provincial Press).
The Newspaper Press Its Origin Progress and Present Position - vol.3. the Metropolitan Weekly and Provincial Press Author:James Grant General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1871 Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million book... more »s for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER IV. NEWSPAPERS IN THE BEGINNING OF THE EIGHTEENTH CENTURY. Contributors to the Journals -- First Daily Paper -- Favourite Newspaper Titles -- Strange Titles -- Daniel Defoe -- Newspaper Stamp Duty -- Dean Swift -- the Taller and Spectator Class of Journals -- Sir Richard Steele and Joseph Addison -- John Dunton -- John Dennis. Though, in adverting to the curious advertisements which appeared in the newspapers of an early date, and transferring to my pages some specimens ot them, as illustrating the manners of the times, I have made in that respect an incursion, if I may so call it, into the first half of the eighteenth century, -- I have not in other respects brought the newspaper history of our ancestors further down than the close of the seventeenth century. And though I have found no materials until the beginning of the eighteenth century which would enable us to form an opinion as to the position of editors -- once called printers -- of the newspapers of a previous date, yet in the early part of that century we begin to have our darkness enlightened on the subject. In the year 1704 a paper called the Observator, of great circulation and popularity -- great, I mean, in that day -- was prosecuted for a libel. Whether this was the same Observator that Vol. i. 6 was started by Sir Koger 1'Estrange in 1681, I have been unable to ascertain, not having succeeded in procuring a sight of the Observator of either date; but be that as it may -- and it is not a matter of much importance, whichever way the fact may be -- an action was brought, in 1704, against the printer and publisher, ...« less