A History of Advertising from the Earliest Times.

CHAPTER I.

_INTRODUCTORY--NEWSPAPERS AND NEWSPAPER ADVERTISING._

It must be patent to every one who takes the least interest in the subject, that the study of so important a branch of our present system of commerce as advertising, with its rise and growth, cannot fail to be full of interest. Indeed it is highly suggestive of amusement, as a reference to any of our old newspape...