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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.
A chapbook of Robert Burns's The Whistle: A Poem. A pamphlet or chapbook is a small collection of poetry, usually 15 to 30 poems, centering around one theme. Poets often publish a pamphlet as their first work. [1]
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
Dick Whittington buys a cat from a woman. Coloured cut from a children's book published in New York, c. 1850 (Dunigan's edition) Dick Whittington and His Cat is the English folklore surrounding the real-life Richard Whittington (c. 1354 – 1423), wealthy merchant and later Lord Mayor of London. [1]
The prankster Till Eulenspiegel, depicted with owl and mirror (title page of the Strasbourg edition of 1515) Eulenspiegel Memorial in Kneitlingen. Till Eulenspiegel (German pronunciation: [tɪl ˈʔɔʏlənˌʃpiːɡəl]; Low German: Dyl Ulenspegel [dɪl ˈʔuːlnˌspeɪɡl̩]) is the protagonist of a European narrative tradition.
Originally a monthly bulletin of executions, produced by the Keeper of Newgate Prison in London, the Calendar's title was appropriated by other publishers, who put out biographical chapbooks about notorious criminals such as Sawney Bean, Dick Turpin, and Moll Cutpurse.
10 River Terrace (2010) Poets House is a national literary center and poetry library based in New York City, United States.It contains more than 80,000 volumes of poetry, and is free and open to the public.
4.1.7.1 Digital chapbooks. 4.2 ... a short story available as a PDF download from Necessary ... (250 copies) short story that was given away for free at the ...