The English Newspaper, 1622–1932
An Account of the Physical Development of Journals Printed in London

A bibliographical history of newspaper development.

Stanley Morison (Author)

9780521122696, Cambridge University Press

Paperback, published 1 October 2009

362 pages
29.7 x 21 x 1.9 cm, 0.87 kg

The text of The English Newspaper is substantially that given as a series of six lectures in the Sandars Readership in Bibliography in February 1932, a post that Stanley Morison held at Cambridge University from 1931–2. He based most of his research on original sources from, among others, the British Museum, the Bodleian and University Libraries. His aim was to stimulate interest in the bibliographical history of newspaper development, despite this form being 'essentially ephemeral', which 'yet has a place, though humble, beside the cocdex and the printed book - the most permanent of records of human thought and experience'.

Preface
1. The news-pamphlets, predecessors of the newspapers, 1622–1664
2. The first newspapers, 1665–1695
3. The thrice-weekly posts, 1695–1702
4. The first daily newspaper and the development of the thrice-weekly evening posts, 1702–1715
5. The weekly journals, I, 1713–1725
6. The Weekly Journals, II, 1727–1742
7. Daily Journals, Posts and Advertisers, 1719–1741
8. Evening Journals, 1739–1758
9. The mid-eighteenth-century papers, 1748–1770
10. The mature eighteenth-century newspaper, I, 1770–1781
11. The mature eighteenth-century newspaper, II, 1786–1789
12. The nineteenth-century daily, 1803–1846
13. The nineteenth century Sunday newspapers to 1861
14. The mid-Victorian penny and halfpenny papers, 1855–1881
15. The 'new journalism', 1883–1896
16. The newspaper of today, 1898–1931
Appendix: Francis Hoffman
Indexes.

Subject Areas: Publishing industry & book trade [KNTP]