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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.
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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 chapter book is a story book intended for intermediate readers, generally age 7–10. [1] [2] Unlike picture books for beginning readers, a chapter book tells the story primarily through prose rather than pictures. Unlike books for advanced readers, chapter books contain plentiful illustrations.
The Faust Book seems to have been written during the latter half of the sixteenth century (1568–81 or shortly thereafter). It comes down to us in manuscript from a professional scribe in Nuremberg and also as a 1587 imprint from the prominent Frankfurt publishing house of Johann Spies. The better-known version is the Spies imprint of 1587.
This category contains writers of chapbooks (English language term), as well as bibliothèque bleue ("blue book"; French) and Volksbuch (German). Pages in category ...
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Examples of this form of fiction are now rare, surviving only in a few collections. [2] One of the collections where a number of gothic bluebooks have been preserved is the Corvey Library. [3] Gothic bluebooks were descendants of the chapbook, trade in which had nearly disappeared by 1800. [4]