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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.
Before the introduction of books, writing on bone, shells, wood and silk was prevalent in China long before the 2nd century BCE, until paper was invented in China around the 1st century CE. China's first recognizable books called jiance or jiandu , were made of rolls of thin split and dried bamboo bound together with hemp, silk, or leather. [ 14 ]
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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.
Beginning with propaganda during the Reformation, the rise of the printing press and literacy led to pamphleteering enjoying its heyday from the 17th Century to the 19th Century. Books were considered expensive and tracts did not necessarily address contemporary issues so pamphlets were widely produced and circulated.
The Chap-Book was an American literary magazine between 1894 and 1898. It is often classified as one of the first "little magazines" of the 1890s. [1] The first edition of The Chap-Book was dated 15 May 1894. Its editor was Herbert Stuart Stone and it was published by Stone and Kimball.
W.E.B. Du Bois published the The Brownies’ Book for Black kids in the 1920s. Now, Karida L. Brown and Charly Palmer have written an updated version in book form.
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 ...