Author: ANON
Title: The Reading Mercury or Weekly Entertainer. Vol. I. Numb. 1 Monday July 8 1723. [Facsimile reissue].
Description: W. Parks and D. Kinnier, next Door to the Saracen's Head, in High-Street, Reading,, 1723. 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.

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