Author: Hanson, Laurence.
Title: Government and the Press 1695-1763.
Description: Oxford Books on Bibliography. Oxford University Press. London. Humphrey Milford. 1936 Tan paper covered boards with quarter blue cloth spine. ix + 149pp. tissue guarded frontis. tall 4to. No inscriptions. some ff unopened. eps and edges foxed as are a few pages but overall the contents are very clean. Both boards are unmarked hence VG+ clean condition. an above average copy inside a lesser dustwrapper (chipped and worn with some tears but no major loss). The freedom of the press is a priviledge of which Englishmen boast about but which they rarely examine. This book is an analysis of that freedom in the eighteenth century. It studies the law of libel, the administration of the law and the whole endeavour of government to suppress opinion which it disliked. It relates the early history of parliamentary reporting and the breakdown of parliamentary priviledge. It traces the rise of a government press which included 'The London Gazette', Defoe's 'Review', Swift's 'Examiner', & Fielding's 'Jacobite's Journal'. Based upon sources hitherto unpublished, it offers an original contribution to the history of both journalism and of administration.

Keywords: legal journalism


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