Chapbook

Chapbook is a generic term to cover a particular genre of pocket-sized booklet, popular from the sixteenth through to the later part of the nineteenth century. No exact definition can be applied. The term chap-book was coined by bibliophiles of the 19th century, as a variety of ephemera (disposable printed material). It includes many kinds of printed material, such as pamphlets, political and religious tracts, nursery rhymes, poetry, folk tales, ... more

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