Advertisements for books, in the form of handbills or broadsheets, are known from about 1466 onward, including one of Caxton's of 1477, ending with a polite request not to tear it down, Supplico stet cedula ("Please let the poster stand").
Among the earliest products of the printing press were broadsheets about the size of handbills on which were printed the text of ballads.
Written media include letters, handbills, posters, billboards, newspapers, magazines, books, and handwriting on walls and streets.
Those handbills, posters, and cards later acquired by Chicago's Newberry Library were raw, crudely designed, and inexpensively reproduced.
In Europe, after the invention of printing by movable type, it was not long before printed handbills, flyers, broadsheets, and posters were affixed to walls and fences and even signboards carried by people, by which they advertised an assortment of goods and services, public executions, sailings and dockings, and the like.
I walk there along white cliffs, past the stucco Winter Gardens where handbills advertise a 1940s show ("Don't forget your gas mask!").
By concentrating thus on the few, he increases his chances of reaching the many often far more effectively than he could through a plethora of mass meetings, paid broadcasts, handbills, or billboards and at much lower cost.
Frost's family had for years lodged complaints with the police department, but Margaret took their concerns public in the summer of 2001, when she began dispatching letters to the editor, making calls to public officials, and distributing shrill handbills.
Norman Singer, the City Center's general administrator, identified the group and told about the handbills being distributed explaining the orchestra's position.
After making a drop-off at Zonehampton, an exercise studio in downtown East Hampton, Bixler and Rhett each took a sheaf of handbills and fanned out on Main Street to distribute them.
Then they made placemats, embellished with images from old theatre handbills.
