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London : The Times, 1920. First edition. An exhaustive and fully indexed chronological listing of all the known English and Welsh newspapers, magazines and periodicals from 1620 to 1919 – including dates of first and last issue, etc. Prefaced by an historical introduction to newspaper history.
Royal 8vo (26cm). (214),(lii),215-324,(xxxvi)pp. Original cloth gilt over bevelled boards; just a little rubbed and lightly dulled, but a very good, sound and serviceable copy. Neat contemporary ownership inscription.

£50

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Hassocks : Harvester Press / Atlantic Highlands : Humanities Press, (1979). First edition. The outpourings of a hirsute generation, with such details as can be reconstructed of the publication history of over 1250 titles from “Aardvark” to “Zoar”, by way of “Harpies Bizarre”, “Heavy Daze”, “Kaos” and “Karma”- the “most substantial listing of the underground and alternative press in Britain ... very few of the titles listed in the Directory are held by public or academic libraries in Britain”.
Medium 8vo (25cm). [xiv],(360),[ii]pp. Original cloth; a touch rubbed, but overall very good.

£25

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Westport (CT) : Greenwood Press, (1986). First edition. Essays, profiles and publication histories of all the twentieth-century British literary magazines – alphabetically arranged from “The Abinger Chronicle” to “X : A Quarterly Review” – with supplementary appendices giving material on the social and literary chronology, Scottish periodicals, magazines with short runs, etc. The fourth in the “British Literary Magazines” series, and forming part of the “Historical Guides to the World’s Periodicals and Newspapers” project.
Medium 8vo (25cm). (xxxii),(630),[ii]pp. Original cloth; very good.

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London : Mansell, 1979. First edition. A bibliography of English-language literary periodicals arranged by region – Africa, Australia, Canada, Caribbean, Hong Kong, Malaysia and Singapore, Mediterranean, New Zealand, Pacific Islands, South Asia (Bangladesh, India and Sri Lanka), Pakistan, South Africa and the Sudan.
Crown 4to (26cm). (xxvi),146pp. Original cloth; some very minor wear and a few faint marks, but a good copy.

£25

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