Printed publicity material relating to the insertion of an advertisement in 'The Manchester Weekly Times'.

Author: 
The Manchester Weekly Times [Victorian newspapers; nineteenth-century provincial periodicals]
Publication details: 
Undated [late Victorian]. Place [Manchester] not stated.
£56.00
SKU: 7560

The main text is printed on one side of a piece of paper roughly 28 x 13.5 cm, headed 'Upwards of Thirty Thousand Copies Of the "Manchester Weekly Times," with Eight-page Literary Supplement, are Issued Every Saturday.' The main block of text, in a variety of types and point sizes, consists of 27 lines ending 'The Proprietors respectfully solicit instructionsn to insert your Advertisement.' Describes the newspaper's merits and boasts that it is 'one of the Largest and most complete Weekly Papers published'. Tipped in beneath this is a slip of paper bearing the proof of a five-line advertisement for the 'SOLID and Accomplished EDUCATION for a limited number of YOUNG LADIES.' Tipped in beneath this slip is another slip, on blue paper, bearing the printed cost fo the advertisement, '1s. 3d. per Week.' Printed at the foot of the page is an uncompleted form, authorising the insertion of the advertisement. Tipped in over the form, on both sides of a piece of pink paper (7 x 11 cm) is a notice headed 'CIRCULATION UPWARDS OF 30,000.', carrying details of advertising rates on the reverse. The Manchester Weekly Times ran from 1861 to 1922.