THE LONDON COURANT, England, Oct. 25, 1746

• Jacobite Rebellion era
• Nice masthead engravings

The masthead features two engravings, one showing a sailing ship and the other a post-boy 'trumpeting' the news.
Various news from Europe with most of the back page taken up with advertisements.
Complete as a single sheet issue, the margins appear to have been hand-trimmed close to the text but not affecting any letters, otherwise good condition.

Background: This issue of The London Courant dated October 25, 1746, stands as a rare and historically significant artifact printed in the immediate aftermath of the 1745 Jacobite Rebellion—just six months after the decisive Battle of Culloden, a pivotal moment when British newspapers were filled with intelligence on the manhunt for "Bonnie Prince Charlie," trials of Scottish rebels, and the geopolitical fallout of the War of the Austrian Succession. Preserved complete as a single-sheet four-page newspaper subject to the era's stringent Stamp Act taxes, its visual highlight is the striking twin masthead woodcut engravings featuring a sailing ship (symbolizing foreign maritime news) and a post-boy blowing a horn (representing express domestic dispatch). Original 18th-century newspapers from this critical period are exceptionally scarce today due to fragile handmade rag paper, low press runs, and centuries of loss, making complete issues with intact front-page mastheads, European dispatches, and authentic back-page commercial advertisements particularly prized by collectors and historians.