[ The Manchester Times. ] Printed handbill, headed 'To Advertisers. | Circulation of the "Manchester Times." Boasting of an 'unprecedented' increase in sales, and suggesting the renewal of an appended advertisement.

Author: 
A. W. Paulton, proprietor, The Manchester Times [ Archibald Prentice (1792-1857), journalist and free-trader ]
Publication details: 
'Published every Saturday Morning, by the Proprietor, A. W. PAULTON, at the Office, Ducie Placce, Manchester. | Times Office, August 29th, 1848.'
£90.00
SKU: 17245

1p., 12mo. A frail survival, creased and aged. Begins: 'The MANCHESTER TIMES has now been in the hands of the present Proprietor for twelve months, [Paulton had bought out Prentice in 1847] during which period its increase in circulation has been unprecedented. | At the commencement of the present year the Proprietor of the MANCHESTER TIMES announced that its circulation, during the previous half-year, had ranged from | 3,000 to 4,800. | He then expressed his strong conviction, that in SIX MONTHS from that time the maximum would become the average circulation. His anticipations were more than realised before the end of THREE MONTHS, [...]'. In 1849 the Manchester Times would merge with the Manchester Examiner. At the foot of the page: 'The Proprietor requests the favour of an order to insert the following Advertisement: -'. Beneath this is a gap, with a cutting tipped into it of an advertisement for a 'Desirable Freehold Residence. | By Mr. ADAM WALTERS, at the Royal Oak Inn, in Cheedle, [...] Capital MANSION HOUSE, called Green Hill, situate near Cheadle, lately occupied by Miss Griffin, deceased, [...]'. Dated from Cheadle, 19 August 1845.