first number edinburgh courant (2 resultados)

ONE OF 50 COPIES, folio, pp. [ii], 24 + 16 binder?s blanks. Contemporary half roan, pebbled purple cloth boards, spine lettered direct in gilt, top edge gilt. A little spotting. Boards a little soiled, leather worn, some areas of loss to spine. Gift inscription to flyleaf: ?To Mr Milne from David Davies. With sincere thanks for wonderful services rendered. 6th May 1957?, folded 1963 facsimile of Issue One of Edinburgh Evening News (1873) loosely inserted. A limited-edition facsimile of the first issue of The Edinburgh Courant, dated 14th-19th February 1705, which is followed by a short history of Scottish newspapers in the early 18th century.

Half-Leather. Condición: Good. Reprint. Hardback. Folio. A good copy in a rather worn half-leather binding lettered in gilt on the spine. Top edge gilt. One of fifty copies. Comprises two pages facsimile copy of the first edition of the Edinburgh Courant (in February 1705) and twenty pages of commentary on the development of newspapers in general and the Courant in particular.