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Poets often publish a pamphlet as their first work. [1] Pamphlets are not usually more than 40 pages. They are sometimes handmade or saddle-stitched, a format best suited for small print runs. Compared to a full-length poetry collection, a pamphlet is fairly inexpensive to produce. Some poets design and print their own pamphlets. [2]
Chapbook is first attested in English in 1824, and seemingly derives from chapman, the word for the itinerant salesmen who would sell such books. [1] [2] The first element of chapman comes in turn from Old English cēap 'barter', 'business', 'dealing', [3] from which the modern adjective cheap was ultimately derived.
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Articles relating to chapbooks, small publications of up to about 40 pages, sometimes bound with a saddle stitch. In early modern Europe a chapbook was a type of printed street literature . Subcategories
Meanwhile, Ann had begun publishing chapbooks on her own in 1795. [3] By 1798, Lemoine established her own business as a London publisher, [ 4 ] publishing more than 400 chapbooks between 1795 and 1820, some of which she may have written.
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This list follows the chronology of original (typically Spanish-language) publication in books, based in part on the rather comprehensive (but incomplete) bibliography online at the Borges Center (originally the J. L. Borges Center for Studies & Documentation at the University of Aarhus, then at the University of Iowa, now—as of 2010—at the University of Pittsburgh).
Frontispiece of the Historia von D. Johann Fausten, published in 1587 by Johann Spies. Historia von D. Johann Fausten, the first "Faust book", is a chapbook of stories concerning the life of Johann Georg Faust, written by an anonymous German author.