A History of Advertising from the Earliest Times: Illustrated by Anecdotes, Curious Specimens and Biographical NotesChatto and Windus, 1874 - 616 pages |
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... offering a good return for investments . The Morning Advertiser , as the organ of the licensed victuallers , is of course an invalu- able medium of inter - communication among members of " the trade , " and in it are to be found ...
... offering a good return for investments . The Morning Advertiser , as the organ of the licensed victuallers , is of course an invalu- able medium of inter - communication among members of " the trade , " and in it are to be found ...
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... offered food and shelter . Still , as long as civilisation was only at a low ebb , the so - called open houses few , and competition trifling , signs were of but little use . A few objects , typical of the trade carried on , would ...
... offered food and shelter . Still , as long as civilisation was only at a low ebb , the so - called open houses few , and competition trifling , signs were of but little use . A few objects , typical of the trade carried on , would ...
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... offered in an advertisement is related by Pausanias , who , speaking of the art of working metals , says that the ... offering a reward to any person who should find and take care of the animals . " The Greeks used another mode of giving ...
... offered in an advertisement is related by Pausanias , who , speaking of the art of working metals , says that the ... offering a reward to any person who should find and take care of the animals . " The Greeks used another mode of giving ...
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... offering for sale this old screw of a jackass , with his foundered hoofs , his ugly colour , his sluggishness in everything but vice , and a hide that is This nothing but a ready - made sieve ? Let us ANCIENT FORMS OF ADVERTISING . 35.
... offering for sale this old screw of a jackass , with his foundered hoofs , his ugly colour , his sluggishness in everything but vice , and a hide that is This nothing but a ready - made sieve ? Let us ANCIENT FORMS OF ADVERTISING . 35.
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... offered by Venus in the hue and cry she raises after her fugitive son in the first idyl of Moschus , a Syracusan poet who flourished about 250 years before the Christian era : " If any one has seen my son Eros straying in the cross ...
... offered by Venus in the hue and cry she raises after her fugitive son in the first idyl of Moschus , a Syracusan poet who flourished about 250 years before the Christian era : " If any one has seen my son Eros straying in the cross ...
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A History of Advertising from the Earliest Times: Illustrated by Anecdotes ... Henry Sampson No preview available - 2015 |
A History of Advertising From the Earliest Times: Illustrated by Anecdotes ... Henry Sampson No preview available - 2016 |
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