Unparalleled success of the Agents' herald. Bright! Sparkling! Reliable! : the only representative agents' paper ever published. Increase of circulation in two years, from 10,000 to 40,000 and enlargement of size from 8 to 32 pages. 65,000 copies for January, 1879.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Agents' Publishing Company.

American Subscription Publishing Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Canvassing and Sample Book Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Friends of the Library Endowment Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Newspaper publishing--Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

Newspaper publishing.

Pennsylvania--Philadelphia.

Genre:

Circulars.

Physical Description:

1 sheet (2 unnumbered pages) ; 30 cm

Place of Publication:

Philadelphia : Agents Publishing Company, 1878.

Notes:

"We ask your careful attention to the marked paragraphs in accompanying Christmas Herald, and to the blank contract and circular enclosed. "

"The Agents' herald" paper, directed specifically at agents, was first issued in Philadelphia in 1877 and ceased publication in 1895 or 1896.

Circular dated December 25, 1878 announcing an increase in the paper's circulation size and subsequent cost increase of its advertising rates.

First line of text: It affords us great pleasure to announce that, hereafter, the Agents' herald will be a 32 page paper, and have a circulation each month of not less than 40,000.

Sheet printed on both sides. Verso of circular notice includes a sample image from the first page of the "Agents' herald" (v. 2, no. 11, November 1878) and another from the advertisement section of the paper.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Friends of the Library Endowment Fund.

OCLC:

949947087