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The Paper Chase: The Printer, the Spymaster, and the Hunt for Rebel Pamphleteers

by Joseph Hone

In the summer of 1705, a masked woman knocked on the door of David Edwards’s London workshop. She did not leave her name, only a package and a coded means of identifying her courier. Edwards was a Welsh printer working in the dark confines of Nevill’s Alley, outside the city walls. The package was an illegal, anonymous pamphlet: The Memorial of the Church of

Publisher

Chatto & Windus

Publication date

2021-08-24

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ISBN

9781784743062