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The Proliferation of Printed Advertising in British Train Stations Along with a Train Station Book Stall

1874
"Modern Advertising: A Railway Station in 1874" The W.H. Smith bookstall is in the lower right.

"Modern Advertising: A Railway Station in 1874" The W.H. Smith bookstall is in the lower right.

In 1875 Henry Sampson, in his History of Advertising from the Earliest Times published a folding chromolithographed frontispiece that showed the proliferation of printed advertising that had occurred in British train stations, along with an early depiction of a W.H. Smith train station bookstall. Notably, Sampson considered this "modern advertising".

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