From Grub Street to Fleet Street: An Illustrated History of English Newspapers to 1899

The cheap warrens surrounding London's Grub Street were home to the newsbooks and other unlicensed publications that exploded onto the scene in the 1640s and 1650s, as fugitive printers lugged their presses from one garret to the next to stay a step ahead of the authorities. Clarke, who is not further identified, traces the ascendance of English ne