Produced by Marius Masi, Chris Curnow and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive) 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 Operations against the Spaniards--Papers of News in the Reign of James I.--The first Periodical Newspaper published in England--Illustrated Tracts relating to Storms and Floods--Remarkable Murders favourite subjects with the early Newswriters--Murder of the Rev. Mr. Storre--Murder in Cornwall--Apparition of Three Skeletons--Visions in the Air--Attempt on the Life of the Duke of Buckingham--Fall of Meteors at Bawlkin Green, Berkshire--The _Swedish Intelligencer_--Passage of the River Leck by Gustavus Adolphus--The Sallee Rovers--The _Weekly News_ of 1638, an Illustrated Paper--The Irish Rebellion of 1641--The Plague in London--Murder on board an English Ship--The Earl of Strafford--His Execution on Tower Hill--Archbishop Laud--A Burlesque Play about him--Attack by the Mob on Lambeth Palace--Caricature of the Devil offering Laud a Cardinal's Hat. CHAPTER III. 63