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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.
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
This category contains writers of chapbooks (English language term), as well as bibliothèque bleue ("blue book"; French) and Volksbuch (German). Pages in category ...
An English version based on the Historia was published in 1592, which became known as the "English Faust Book". The Historia may also have been the source of Thomas Roscoe 's translation, "History of that Renowned Arch Sorcerer, Doctor J. Faust", published in The German Novelists (1826).
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Moonstone Arts Chapbook prize (2019) - Winner of the Alabama State Poetry Society Chapbook Contest (2019) Kenneth George Pobo (born August 24, 1954) is an American author, poet, and educator. He has received many awards throughout his career for his poetry and fiction, including the Moonstone Arts Chapbook Prize in 2019 and the Qarrtsiluni ...
Later English editions, derived from the Antwerp group, were printed by William Copland in London, in 1547 and 1568. [19] Owleglasse is mentioned in Henry Porter's The Two Angry Women of Abington (1599) and again in Ben Jonson's comedic play The Alchemist (1610). The first modern edition of the chapbook of 1519 is by Lappenberg (1854).
Bertolino is the author of 30 books and chapbooks of poetry and prose, beginning in 1968 with two chapbooks, Day of Change and Drool.He was widely published from early on in his career, and over the years his work has appeared in more than 100 magazines and more than 40 anthologies.