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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
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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 ] Pamphlets are not usually more than 40 pages.
Cover of the Thanksgiving 1895 issue of The Chap-Book, designed by Will H. Bradley. 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 ...
The related word chapbook is a later coinage from the 19th century which appears to refer to the fact that chapbooks were very cheaply made. From Old English ceap is also derived cheap “inexpensive,” a shortening of good ceap “good buy,” and Cheapside “market place,” a street in London that both historically and in modern times has ...
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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