NEWSPAPER
THE REHEARSAL. Daniel DeFoe Numb.125
Printed and Sold by the Booksellers of London and Westminster
1767
This broadsheet newspaper Numb. 125 of the
Rehearsal edited by Charles Leslie is printed on
both sides of one sheet. It takes the form of a
conversation between "Country-man" and "Rehearsal" .
Leslie was a radical and a critic of the Observator
newspaper, at the time edited by John Tutchin, and
the Rehearsl was for a time titled "The Rehearsal of
Observator" . This clean and tidy issue refers to
DeFoe (another regular target of the Rehearsal)
and "The Extraordinary Dedication of (his) Satyr."
Other headlines printed under the masthead ar as
follows; " His Exaltation of Queen REASON,and
Tumbling her Down as Low, How the Sciences came to be
Islands, Of the 15 Provinces of Speech and the
Original Language, The Province of Propriety in
making Reason a Hermaphrodit, Of Reason being
Daughter to Nature. How the Daughter did Depose her
Lady Mother. And yet the mother gets the Better, The
necessity of Revalation, not only in matter of Faith,
but of Civil Government, shew'd in the Fallibility
and Weakness of our Reason since the Fall, The Holy
Scripture the only Rule both as to the Original, and
Obligation of Government." A fascinating glimpse at
the origins of Journalism in this country in a clean
copy of this rare survival.
condition: Very Good +
type:
jacket: None Issued
binding: Disbound
£10.00
