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Four 19th Century Chapbooks Printed by William Walker of Otley, Yorkshire c.1820 The four chapbooks - originally sold separately for 'One Halfpenny' each - have been bound together via a little crude stitching and glue. Not sure of date, but William Walker chapbooks of 1829 were priced at 'One Penny', so perhaps these 'One Halfpenny' books are a little earlier. The four books are: 'The Hobby-horse. A NEW BOOK OF AMUSEMENT' Price One Halfpenny. 12 pages: [1], 2~11, [12]. One illustration per page. W. Walker, Printer, Otley 'Peter Ponder's PASTIMES' Price One Halfpenny. 12 pages: [1], 2~12. One illustration per page. W. Walker, Printer, Otley 'THE Four Seasons' 12 pages: [3], 4~14. Front & rear cover absent, thus pages 1, 2,15 & 16 are missing which includes the last page of text. However, text at front appears complete? 6 illustrations. 'THE KEEPSAKE' Price One Halfpenny. 12 pages: [1], 2~12. One illustration per page. W. Walker, Printer, Otley Size: 54 x 88mm Condition: Front and rear cover absent to 'The Four Seasons'. Strong vertical crease to front cover which could easily split if handled too roughly and/or frequently. Age related wear & discolouration to all pages plus a little foxing, creasing, small nicks/tears, dog ears & small loss to the odd corner. Stitched binding, although crude, is strong and holding well. Titles not mentioned elsewhere, so possibly unique survivors. --- In early modern Europe a chapbook was a type of printed street literature. Produced cheaply, chapbooks were commonly small, paper-covered booklets, usually printed on a single sheet folded into books of 8, 12, 16 and 24 pages. They were often illustrated with crude woodcuts, which sometimes bore no relation to the text, and were often read aloud to an audience. The tradition of chapbooks arose in the 16th century, as soon as printed books became affordable, and rose to its height during the 17th and 18th centuries. Many different kinds of ephemera and popular or folk literature were published as chapbooks, such as almanacs, children's literature, folk tales, ballads, nursery rhymes, pamphlets, poetry, and political and religious tracts. Chapbook is first attested in English in 1824, and seems to derive from the word for the itinerant salesmen who would sell such books: chapman (A chapman (plural chapmen) was an itinerant dealer or hawker in early modern Britain.). The first element of chapman comes in turn from Old English ceap ('barter, business, dealing') from which the modern adjective cheap was subsequently derived. N° de ref. del artículo 000628
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