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Bibliothèque bleue ("blue library" in French) is a type of ephemera and popular literature published in Early Modern France (between c. 1602 and c. 1830), comparable to the English chapbook and the German Volksbuch. As was the case in England and Germany, the literary format appealed to all levels of French society, transcending social, sex ...
The chapbook Jack the Giant Killer. A chapbook is a type of small printed booklet that was a popular medium for street literature throughout early modern Europe.Chapbooks were usually produced cheaply, illustrated with crude woodcuts and printed on a single sheet folded into 8, 12, 16, or 24 pages, sometimes bound with a saddle stitch.
It was a Bengali weekly newspaper published by the Baptist Missionary Society from the Baptist Mission Press at Serampore in the first half of the 19th century. It is considered to be the first Indian-language newspaper. 1821 Sambad Kaumudi: Bengali: Calcutta: Company's India: It was founded by Ram Mohan Roy and was published first half of the ...
The Burney Collection consists of over 1,270 17th-18th century newspapers and other news materials, gathered by Charles Burney, most notable for the 18th-century London newspapers. The original collection, totalling almost 1 million pages, is held by the British Library .
In early modern Europe a chapbook was a type of printed street literature. Subcategories. This category has the following 3 subcategories, out of 3 total. C.
Religious perspectives became prominent in colonial American literature during the later 17th-century and into the 18th-century, and were mostly found in Puritan writings and publications, [93] [g] often resulting in charges of libel and sedition levied by the British Crown.
17th-century treaties (80 C) Pages in category "17th-century documents" The following 44 pages are in this category, out of 44 total. This list may not reflect recent ...
Victor E. Neuburg, 'Literacy in eighteenth century England: a caveat', Local Population Stuies Magazine and Newsletter, no. 2 (Spring 1969), pp. 44-6 Victor E. Neuburg, The penny histories: a study of chapbooks for young readers over two centuries , illustrated with facsimiles of seven chapbooks (The Juvenile Library; London: Oxford University ...