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Definition of Chapbooks
1. chapbook [n] - See also: chapbook
Lexicographical Neighbors of Chapbooks
Literary usage of Chapbooks
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. An Anthology of German Literature by Calvin Thomas (1909)
"THE chapbooks The so-called Volksbücher of the 16th century were published in
cheap and careless form, and designed to meet the popular demand for ..."
2. The Lamp by Charles Scribner's Sons (1904)
"These small audiences are all that remain of a vaster audience, the entire rank
and file of the British nation, that once absorbed the chapbooks in such ..."
3. Scottish Chapbook Literature by William Harvey (1903)
"LIST OF chapbooks REFERRED TO IN THK PRECEDING PAGES. Aberdeen Almanac, IOI
Accomplished Courtier ; or, a New School of Love 68, 100 Christ's Glorious ..."
4. The Encyclopaedia Britannica: “a” Dictionary of Arts, Sciences, Literature edited by Hugh Chisholm (1910)
"The early chapbooks were the direct descendants of the black-letter tracts ...
Most early English chapbooks are adaptations or translations of these French ..."
5. The English Illustrated Magazine (1897)
"The chapbooks were rude specimens of typography, as the accompanying reduced
reproduction of the title- page of one of them shows. They were the successors ..."
6. Bulletin of the New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations by New York Public Library (1914)
"The chapbooks are all in Reserve. Account, An, of the imprisonment and execution
of poor Dennis, an Irishman, who was hung for robbery, and afterwards ..."
7. The Folk-lore Record by Folklore Society (Great Britain) (1879)
"published in I860, is a history of French chapbooks only. Goerres published at
Heidelberg, as long ago as 1807, a history of German chapbooks, Die Teutschen ..."
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