
A History of Advertising from the Earliest Times.
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- A History of Advertising From the Earliest Times.
- CONTENTS.
- 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.
- CHAPTER IX. MIDDLE OF EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.
- CHAPTER X. THE EDUCATION COMPLETED.
- CHAPTER XI. CURIOUS AND ECCENTRIC ADVERTISEMENTS.
- CHAPTER XII. SWINDLES AND HOAXES.
- CHAPTER XIII. THE GREAT BOTTLE-TRICK SWINDLE.
- CHAPTER XIV. QUACKS AND IMPOSTORS.
- CHAPTER XV. GRAHAM AND HIS CELESTIAL BED.
- CHAPTER XVI. LOTTERIES AND LOTTERY INSURANCES.
- CHAPTER XVII. MATRIMONIAL ADVERTISEMENTS AND AGENCIES.
- CHAPTER XVIII. HANDBILLS, INSCRIPTIONS, ETC.
- CHAPTER XIX. AMERICAN AND COLONIAL ADVERTISEMENTS.
- CHAPTER XX. ADVERSARIA.
- A List of Books PUBLISHED BY Chatto & Windus, 74 & 75, PICCADILLY, LONDON, W.
- Facsimiles of newspaper pages transcribed in the text
- Domestick Intelligence (following Page 4)
- WEEKELY Newes from Italy, etc. (following Page 96)
- The Weekly Account: etc. (following Page 104)
- THE TIMES (following Page 234)
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- Second sheet
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- Fourth sheet
- Bish lottery advertisement (page 465)
- Overend Gurney & Co. Disaster Handbill (Page 555)
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