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  A
  HISTORY OF ADVERTISING.


  PRINTED BY BALLANTYNE AND COMPANY
  EDINBURGH AND LONDON


[Illustration:

A. Concanen, del. et lith.

Stannard & Son, imp.

MODERN ADVERTISING: A RAILWAY STATION IN 1874.]


  A
  HISTORY OF ADVERTISING
  ^From the Earliest Times^.

  _ILLUSTRATED BY ANECDOTES, CURIOUS SPECIMENS, AND
  BIOGRAPHICAL NOTES._

  BY HENRY SAMPSON.

  [Illustration]

  WITH ILLUSTRATIONS AND FACSIMILES.

  ^London:^
  CHATTO AND WINDUS, PICCADILLY.
  1874.


  TO
  THE RIGHT HONOURABLE
  THOMAS MILNER GIBSON,
  IN HUMBLE RECOGNITION OF THE IMPORTANT SERVICES
  HE HAS RENDERED TO THE CAUSE OF
  _ADVERTISING,_
  AS WELL AS TO JOURNALISM GENERALLY,
  ^This Book^
  IS RESPECTFULLY DEDICATED,
  BY
  HIS OBEDIENT SERVANT,
  THE AUTHOR.




CONTENTS.


  CHAP.                                                     PAGE

  I.     INTRODUCTORY--