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CHAPBOOK (from the O. Eng. chap, to buy and sell) , the comparatively modern name applied by booksellers and bibliophiles to the little stitched tracts written for the common people and formerly circulated in England, Scotland and the American colonies by itinerant dealers or chapmen, consisting chiefly of vulgarized versions of popular stories, such as Tom Thumb, Jack the Giant Killer, Mother Shipton, and Reynard the Foxtravels, biographies
Vulgaria; also four volumes of a smaller size, which he lettered Penny
Penny
letter tracts of Wynkyn de Worde. It was in France that the printing-press
supply reading for the common people. At the end of the 15th century there was a large popular literature of farces, tales in verse and prose
great
great
work
chapbook , printed in rather a neat black-letter ."End of Article: CHAPBOOK (from the O. Eng. chap, to buy and sell) If you wish, you can link directly to this article.
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