The Reading Mercury or Weekly Entertainer
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Vol. I. Numb. 1 Monday July 8 1723. [Facsimile reissue].
Published: W. Parks and D. Kinnier next Door to the Saracen's Head in High-Street Reading, 1723
Stock code: 16341
Price: £20.00
Sm. 4to., 12pp., black-letter throughout, with a large woodcut illustrations and woodcut initial in the text; a near fine copy.
Good quality facsimile of the original edition. The Reading Mercury was the town's first newspaper, one of the first in the UK and older than The Times. See Horrocks, p.157.