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THE PICTORIAL PRESS.


[Illustration: HEADING OF 'THE JACOBITE'S JOURNAL,' 1747.

(_Supposed to be Drawn by Hogarth._)

(_See page 197._)]

  THE
  PICTORIAL PRESS
  ITS ORIGIN AND PROGRESS.


  [Illustration]


  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.


                                                                    PAGE
  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