Chapter I: Front Matter

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THE PICTORIAL PRESS.

(_Supposed to be Drawn by Hogarth._)

(_See page 197._)]

THE
PICTORIAL PRESS
ITS ORIGIN AND PROGRESS.

BY

MASON JACKSON.

With One Hundred and Fifty Illustrations.

LONDON:
HURST AND BLACKETT. PUBLISHERS.

13 GREAT MARLBOROUGH STREET.
1885.

_All Rights reserved._

NOTE.

Some of the chapters of this book in a condensed form were published a few years ago in the _Illustrated London News_, and my acknowledgments are due to the proprietors of that journal for permission to reprint such of the woodcuts as accompanied the text in that form. I have also to thank them for their courtesy in allowing me to use several other engravings from the _Illustrated London News_, including some from the early numbers, which must now be reckoned among the curiosities of the Pictorial Press.

M. J.

CONTENTS.

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CHAPTER I. 1

The Pictorial Taste Universal--The Early 'News-books'--Development
of the Newspaper Press--General use of Newspapers--Establishment
of Illustrated Journals--Wandering Ballad-Singers the First
Newsvendors--The _English Mercurie_ of 1588--The Abolition of the
Star Chamber and its Effect on the Press.

CHAPTER II. 8

Illustrated Broadsides--Sir Francis Drake's Operations against the
Spaniards--Papers of News in the Reign of James I.--The first
Periodical Newspaper published in England--Illustrated Tracts
relating to Storms and Floods--Remarkable Murders favourite
subjects with the early Newswriters--Murder of the Rev. Mr.
Storre--Murder in Cornwall--Apparition of Three Skeletons--Visions
in the Air--Attempt on the Life of the Duke of Buckingham--Fall of
Meteors at Bawlkin Green, Berkshire--The _Swedish
Intelligencer_--Passage of the River Leck by Gustavus
Adolphus--The Sallee Rovers--The _Weekly News_ of 1638, an
Illustrated Paper--The Irish Rebellion of 1641--The Plague in
London--Murder on board an English Ship--The Earl of
Strafford--His Execution on Tower Hill--Archbishop Laud--A
Burlesque Play about him--Attack by the Mob on Lambeth
Palace--Caricature of the Devil offering Laud a Cardinal's Hat.