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The pictorial press: its origin and progress (1885)

Jackson, Mason · London : Hurst and Blackett · leaf 191

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:— This Bloody Tragedy in the West being overour Protestant Judge returns for London; soon after whichAlderman Cornish felt the Anger of Somebody behind theCurtain. Alderman Cornish was afterwards executed at the corner 176 Tlie Pictorial Press. of King Street, Cheapside, for alleged participation… … MARTYRS OF THE BLOODY ASSIZES, l6S5. ■and broadsides—the form in winch it was supplied to thembefore newspapers began. ^lacaulay describes the unlicensed press at tliis period asbeing worked in holes and corners, and producing largequantities of pamphlets Mhich were a direct infraction of thelaw…

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