Chap-books of the Eighteenth Century
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Cheap little booklets carried in pedlars' packs to villages were, by John Ashton's account, nearly the only reading offered to much of the English population in the eighteenth century. He gathers a selection of these chap-books and reproduces them with facsimiles of their rough engravings, adding notes and an introduction. The introduction describes the chapmen who sold them, the ballads that came before, and the collections in the British Museum where the originals survive. The edition dates from 1882.
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- Author
- John Ashton
- Reading time
- About 7 hours
- Pages
- 888
- Language
- English
- Genre
- History
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