Author: WINTOUR, CHARLES (1917-?)
Title: The rise and fall of Fleet Street / Charles Wintour
Description: London : Hutchinson (1989) 1989. First Edition. Fine cloth copy in an equally fine dw. now mylar-sleeved. Particularly and surprisingly well-preserved; tight. bright. clean and especially sharp-cornered. ; 8vo 8' - 9' tall; 271 pages; Physical description.: 271 p. [8]p of plates : ill. ports. ; 24 cm. Notes: Includes index. Summary: By the author of 'Pressures on the Press'. this book examines the rise and fall of Fleet Street as a publishing centre. It looks at those who were responsible for the rise - Northcliffe. Beaverbrook. Camrose. Cudlipp and Kemsley - and those that led to its demise - Shah. Maxwell and Murdoch. Subject: Harmsworth. Alfred Charles William. Viscount Northcliffe. journalist and newspaper proprietor. 1865-1922. Maxwell. (Ian) Robert. publisher and swindler. 1923-1991. Murdoch. Rupert. publisher. 1931-. Aitken. William Maxwell. 1st Baron Beaverbrook. newspaper proprietor and politician. 1879-1964. Elias. Julius Salter. Viscount Southwood. printer and newspaper proprietor. 1873-1946. Berry. William Ewert. first Viscount Camrose. newspaper proprietor. 1879-1954. Newspapers. Publishing.ISBN: 0091709202. Weight in Kg appr.:

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