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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.
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 is a list of classic children's books published no later than 2008 and still available in the English language. [1] [2] [3] Books specifically for children existed by the 17th century. Before that, books were written mainly for adults – although some later became popular with children.
This category contains writers of chapbooks (English language term), as well as bibliothèque bleue ("blue book"; French) and Volksbuch (German). Pages in category ...
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]
A fairy tale compilation by English novelist Dinah Craik included the tale, under the name Fortunatus, [13] following an 1818 publication by Benjamin Tabart, who included an homonymous tale. [14] In the same vein, Ernest Rhys edited a collection of English fairy tales and included one version of tale, named Old Fortunatus after the English play ...
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 legend describes his rise from poverty-stricken childhood with the fortune he made through the sale of his cat to a rat-infested country. However, the real Whittington did ...
Thomas Gent was born to parents of ordinary backgrounds. His father was an Englishman, and he was baptised a Presbyterian.His parents ensured he educated himself during his childhood, and in 1707 he began an apprenticeship with Stephen Powell, a printer of Dublin.