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Chapbook, the Glossary

A chapbook is a type of small printed booklet that was popular medium for street literature throughout early modern Europe.^[1]

107 relations: Almanac, American Folklife Center, Anthony Wood (antiquary), Autodidacticism, Špalíček (ballet), Ball State University, Ballad, Basingstoke, Biblioteca Nacional de España, Bibliothèque bleue, Black Lawrence Press, Bodleian Library, Bookbinding, British Library, Broadcloth, Broadside ballad, Cambridge Digital Library, Cambridge University Library, Cambridgeshire, Chapman (occupation), Charles I of England, Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe, Children's literature, City University of New York, Cloth merchant, Colportage, Cordel literature, Early modern Europe, Elizabeth I, English Civil War, Ephemera, Europeana, Exeter, Folk play, Folklore, Frederic Madden, Gentry, Geoffrey Chaucer, Glasgow University Library, Gloucester, Gothic bluebooks, Great Fire of London, Guy of Warwick, Halfpenny (British pre-decimal coin), Halifax, West Yorkshire, Henry II of England, Henry VIII, Ilchester, Iona and Peter Opie, John Rylands Research Institute and Library, ... Expand index (57 more) »
1820s neologisms
Book formats
Early modern literature

Almanac

An almanac (also spelled almanack and almanach) is a regularly published listing of a set of current information about one or multiple subjects.

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American Folklife Center

The American Folklife Center at the Library of Congress in Washington, D.C. was created by Congress in 1976 "to preserve and present American Folklife".

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Anthony Wood (antiquary)

Anthony Wood (17 December 1632 – 28 November 1695), who styled himself Anthony à Wood in his later writings, was an English antiquary.

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Autodidacticism (also autodidactism) or self-education (also self-learning, self-study and self-teaching) is the practice of education without the guidance of schoolmasters (i.e., teachers, professors, institutions).

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Špalíček (ballet)

Špalíček (The Chapbook or The Little Block) is a 1932 three-act folk ballet composed by Bohuslav Martinů (H. 214).

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Ball State University

Ball State University (Ball State, State or BSU) is a public research university in Muncie, Indiana.

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Ballad

A ballad is a form of verse, often a narrative set to music.

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Basingstoke

Basingstoke is a town in Hampshire, situated in south-central England across a valley at the source of the River Loddon on the western edge of the North Downs.

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Biblioteca Nacional de España

The (National Library of Spain) is a major public library, the largest in Spain, and one of the largest in the world.

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Bibliothèque bleue

Bibliothèque bleue ("blue library" in French) is a type of ephemera and popular literature published in Early Modern France (between and), comparable to the English chapbook and the German Volksbuch. Chapbook and Bibliothèque bleue are chapbooks.

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Black Lawrence Press

Black Lawrence Press is an independent publishing company founded in upstate New York by Colleen Ryor.

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Bodleian Library

The Bodleian Library is the main research library of the University of Oxford.

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Bookbinding

Bookbinding is the process of building a book, usually in codex format, from an ordered stack of paper sheets with one's hands and tools, or in modern publishing, by a series of automated processes.

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British Library

The British Library is a research library in London that is the national library of the United Kingdom.

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Broadcloth

Broadcloth is a dense, plain woven cloth, historically made of wool.

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Broadside ballad

A broadside (also known as a broadsheet) is a single sheet of inexpensive paper printed on one side, often with a ballad, rhyme, news and sometimes with woodcut illustrations. Chapbook and broadside ballad are chapbooks.

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Cambridge Digital Library

The Cambridge Digital Library is a project operated by the Cambridge University Library designed to make items from the unique and distinctive collections of Cambridge University Library available online.

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Cambridge University Library

Cambridge University Library is the main research library of the University of Cambridge.

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Cambridgeshire

Cambridgeshire (abbreviated Cambs.) is a ceremonial county in the East of England and East Anglia.

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Chapman (occupation)

A chapman (plural chapmen) was an itinerant dealer or hawker in early modern Britain.

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Charles I of England

Charles I (19 November 1600 – 30 January 1649) was King of England, Scotland, and Ireland from 27 March 1625 until his execution in 1649.

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Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe

Charles Kirkpatrick Sharpe (1781?–1851) was a Scottish antiquary and artist.

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Children's literature

Children's literature or juvenile literature includes stories, books, magazines, and poems that are created for children.

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City University of New York

The City University of New York (CUNY, spoken) is the public university system of New York City.

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Cloth merchant

In the Middle Ages or 16th and 17th centuries, a cloth merchant was one who owned or ran a cloth (often wool) manufacturing or wholesale import or export business.

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Colportage

Colportage is the distribution of publications, books, and religious tracts by carriers called "colporteurs" or "colporters".

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Cordel literature

Cordel literature (from the Portuguese term, literatura de cordel, literally “string literature”) are popular and inexpensively printed booklets or pamphlets containing folk novels, poems and songs.

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Early modern Europe

Early modern Europe, also referred to as the post-medieval period, is the period of European history between the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Industrial Revolution, roughly the mid 15th century to the late 18th century.

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Elizabeth I

Elizabeth I (7 September 153324 March 1603) was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death in 1603.

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English Civil War

The English Civil War refers to a series of civil wars and political machinations between Royalists and Parliamentarians in the Kingdom of England from 1642 to 1651.

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Ephemera

Ephemera are items which were not originally designed to be retained or preserved, but have been collected or retained.

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Europeana

Europeana is a web portal created by the European Union containing digitised cultural heritage collections of more than 3,000 institutions across Europe.

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Exeter

Exeter is a cathedral city and the county town of Devon, South West England.

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Folk play

Folk plays such as Hoodening, Guising, Mummers Play and Soul Caking are generally verse sketches performed in countryside pubs in European countries, private houses or the open air, at set times of the year such as the Winter or Summer solstices or Christmas and New Year.

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Folklore

Folklore is the body of expressive culture shared by a particular group of people, culture or subculture.

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Frederic Madden

Sir Frederic Madden KH (16 February 1801 – 8 March 1873) was an English palaeographer.

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Gentry

Gentry (from Old French genterie, from gentil, "high-born, noble") are "well-born, genteel and well-bred people" of high social class, especially in the past.

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Geoffrey Chaucer

Geoffrey Chaucer (– 25 October 1400) was an English poet, author, and civil servant best known for The Canterbury Tales.

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Glasgow University Library

Glasgow University Library in Scotland is one of the oldest and largest university libraries in Europe.

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Gloucester

Gloucester is a cathedral city and the county town of Gloucestershire in the South West of England.

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Gothic bluebooks

Gothic bluebooks were short forms of gothic fiction popular in the late 18th century and early 19th century. Chapbook and gothic bluebooks are chapbooks.

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Great Fire of London

The Great Fire of London was a major conflagration that swept through central London from Sunday 2 September to Thursday 6 September 1666, gutting the medieval City of London inside the old Roman city wall, while also extending past the wall to the west.

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Guy of Warwick

Guy of Warwick, or Gui de Warewic, is a legendary English hero of Romance popular in England and France from the 13th to 17th centuries, but now largely forgotten.

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Halfpenny (British pre-decimal coin)

The British pre-decimal halfpenny, (pronounced), once abbreviated ob. (from the Latin 'obulus'), was a denomination of sterling coinage worth of one pound, of one shilling, or of one penny.

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Halifax, West Yorkshire

Halifax is a town in the Metropolitan Borough of Calderdale, in West Yorkshire, England.

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Henry II of England

Henry II, also known as Henry Fitzempress and Henry Curtmantle, was King of England from 1154 until his death in 1189.

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Henry VIII

Henry VIII (28 June 149128 January 1547) was King of England from 22 April 1509 until his death in 1547.

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Ilchester

Ilchester is a village and civil parish, situated on the River Yeo or Ivel, five miles north of Yeovil, in the English county of Somerset.

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Iona and Peter Opie

Iona Margaret Balfour Opie, (13 October 1923 – 23 October 2017) and Peter Mason Opie (25 November 1918 – 5 February 1982) were an English married team of folklorists who applied modern techniques to understanding children's literature and play, in studies such as The Oxford Dictionary of Nursery Rhymes (1951) and The Lore and Language of Schoolchildren (1959).

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John Rylands Research Institute and Library

The John Rylands Research Institute and Library is a late-Victorian neo-Gothic building on Deansgate in Manchester, England.

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Kendal

Kendal, once Kirkby in Kendal or Kirkby Kendal, is a market town and civil parish in the Westmorland and Furness district of Cumbria, England.

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Letterpress printing

Letterpress printing is a technique of relief printing for producing many copies by repeated direct impression of an inked, raised surface against individual sheets of paper or a continuous roll of paper.

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Library of Congress

The Library of Congress (LOC) is a research library in Washington, D.C. that serves as the library and research service of the U.S. Congress and the de facto national library of the United States.

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Lilly Library

The Lilly Library, located on the campus of Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana, is an important rare book and manuscript library in the United States.

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London Bridge

The name "London Bridge" refers to several historic crossings that have spanned the River Thames between the City of London and Southwark, in central London since Roman times.

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Lubok

A lubok (plural lubki; лубо́к, лубо́чная картинка) is a Russian popular print, characterized by simple graphics and narratives derived from literature, religious stories, and popular tales.

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Magdalene College, Cambridge

Magdalene College is a constituent college of the University of Cambridge.

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Manchester

Manchester is a city and metropolitan borough of Greater Manchester, England, which had a population of 552,000 at the 2021 census.

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McGill University Library

McGill University Library is the library system of McGill University in Montréal, Québec, Canada.

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Mimeograph

A mimeograph machine (often abbreviated to mimeo, sometimes called a stencil duplicator or stencil machine) was a low-cost duplicating machine that worked by forcing ink through a stencil onto paper.

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National Art Library

The National Art Library (NAL) is a major reference library, situated in the Victoria and Albert Museum (V&A), a museum of decorative arts in London.

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National Library of Scotland

The National Library of Scotland (NLS; Leabharlann Nàiseanta na h-Alba; Naitional Leebrar o Scotland) is one of the country's National Collections.

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Newbury, Berkshire

Newbury is a market town in West Berkshire, England, in the valley of the River Kennet.

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Newcastle upon Tyne

Newcastle upon Tyne, or simply Newcastle (RP), is a city and metropolitan borough in Tyne and Wear, England.

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Nursery rhyme

A nursery rhyme is a traditional poem or song for children in Britain and other European countries, but usage of the term dates only from the late 18th/early 19th century.

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Oliver Cromwell

Oliver Cromwell (25 April 15993 September 1658) was an English statesman, politician, and soldier, widely regarded as one of the most important figures in the history of the British Isles.

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Pamphlet

A pamphlet is an unbound book (that is, without a hard cover or binding).

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Pandosto

Pandosto: The Triumph of Time is a prose romance written by the English author Robert Greene, first published in 1588.

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Penny

A penny is a coin (pennies) or a unit of currency (pence) in various countries.

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Penny dreadful

Penny dreadfuls were cheap popular serial literature produced during the 19th century in the United Kingdom.

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Poetry

Poetry (from the Greek word poiesis, "making") is a form of literary art that uses aesthetic and often rhythmic qualities of language to evoke meanings in addition to, or in place of, literal or surface-level meanings.

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Poetry slam

A poetry slam is a competitive art event in which poets perform spoken word poetry before a live audience and a panel of judges.

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Pub

A pub (short for public house) is in several countries a drinking establishment licensed to serve alcoholic drinks for consumption on the premises.

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Reading, Berkshire

Reading is a town and borough in Berkshire, England.

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Robert Burns

Robert Burns (25 January 1759 – 21 July 1796), also known familiarly as Rabbie Burns, was a Scottish poet and lyricist.

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Robert Greene (dramatist)

Robert Greene (1558–1592) was an English author popular in his day, and now best known for a posthumous pamphlet attributed to him, Greene's Groats-Worth of Witte, bought with a million of Repentance, widely believed to contain an attack on William Shakespeare.

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Robin Hood

Robin Hood is a legendary heroic outlaw originally depicted in English folklore and subsequently featured in literature, theatre, and cinema.

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Rutgers University

Rutgers University, officially Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey, is a public land-grant research university consisting of four campuses in New Jersey.

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Saddle stitch

Saddle stitch is a hand-sewing stitch commonly used in bookbinding, saddle and bridle making, leathercraft, and shoemaking.

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Saint George

Saint George (Geṓrgios;Geʽez: ጊዮርጊስ, Geōrgius, გიორგი, Ge'orgiyos, Mar Giwargis, translit died 23 April 303), also George of Lydda, was an early Christian martyr who is venerated as a saint in Christianity.

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Salisbury

Salisbury is a cathedral city and civil parish in Wiltshire, England with a population of 41,820, at the confluence of the rivers Avon, Nadder and Bourne.

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Samuel Pepys

Samuel Pepys (23 February 1633 – 26 May 1703) was an English diarist and naval administrator.

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Scots language

ScotsThe endonym for Scots is Scots.

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Scottish Gaelic

Scottish Gaelic (endonym: Gàidhlig), also known as Scots Gaelic or simply Gaelic, is a Goidelic language (in the Celtic branch of the Indo-European language family) native to the Gaels of Scotland.

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Seven Champions of Christendom

The Seven Champions of Christendom is an epithet referring to St. George, St. Andrew, St. Patrick, St. Denis, St. James Boanerges, St. Anthony the Lesser, and St. David.

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Seven Wise Masters

The Seven Wise Masters (also called the Seven Sages or Seven Wise Men) is a cycle of stories of Sanskrit, Persian or Hebrew origins.

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Shoemaking

Shoemaking is the process of making footwear.

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Southampton

Southampton is a port city in Hampshire, England.

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Street literature

Street literature is any of several different types of publication sold on the streets, at fairs and other public gatherings, by travelling hawkers, pedlars or chapmen, from the fifteenth to the nineteenth centuries. Chapbook and street literature are chapbooks.

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The Winter's Tale

The Winter's Tale is a play by William Shakespeare originally published in the First Folio of 1623.

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Toilet paper

Toilet paper (sometimes called toilet tissue, toilet roll, or bathroom tissue) is a tissue paper product primarily used to clean the anus and surrounding region of feces (after defecation), and to clean the external genitalia and perineal area of urine (after urination).

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapbook

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1820s neologisms

Book formats

Early modern literature

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