Views on the News: The Developing Editorial Syndrome 1500-1800
Carbondale, Illinois: Southern Illinois University Press, [1970]. First printing. Hardcover. 9 1/4 by 6 1/4 inches; 235 by 158 mm. xi, 238 pages. Hardcover, bound in blue cloth with silver lettering on the spine, in a predominantly black and white jacket. Jacket is price-clipped but clean and crisp. From the jacket: A "comprehensive history of the newspaper editorial, documenting its beginnings in the moralistic British ballads of the sixteenth century and tracing its development through to its emergence as paragraphs of powerful influence in American newspapers of the late eighteenth century." Nineteen pages of endnotes, a six-page bibliography, and a six-page index. Jacket enclosed in a clear, removable protective cover. Item #304
ISBN: 0809304554
Price: $7.50