Taxes on knowledge. Stamps on newspapers.
Subtitle: Extracts from the evidence of the Right Honourable Baron Brougham and Vaux, Lord High Chancellor of England, before the Select Committee of the House of Commons, on libel law, in June 1834; in which the evil to society from the stamp duty on newspapers, the impolicy of the government in its continuance, and its impediment to the spread of useful information and knowledge amongst the mass of the people are clearly shown.
Publisher: Printed by J. R. and C. Childs, and sold by R. Heward, at the office of the Westminster Review
Published: 1834
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Stamp-duties -- Newspapers.; Press law -- Great Britain.