Author: Leo John De Freitas
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Category : Banbury (Oxfordshire, England)
Languages : en
Pages : 146
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The Banbury Chapbooks
Author: Leo John De Freitas
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Banbury (Oxfordshire, England)
Languages : en
Pages : 146
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Banbury (Oxfordshire, England)
Languages : en
Pages : 146
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A Catalogue of Old and Rare Books
Author: Pickering & Chatto
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 268
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Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 268
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An Illustrated Catalogue of Old and Rare Books for Sale at Prices Affixed
Author: Pickering & Chatto
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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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Category : Antiquarian booksellers
Languages : en
Pages : 396
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Cheap Print and Street Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century
Author: David Atkinson
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
ISBN: 180511042X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
This deeply researched collection offers a comprehensive introduction to the eighteenth-century trade in street literature – ballads, chapbooks, and popular prints – in England and Scotland. Offering detailed studies of a selection of the printers, types of publication, and places of publication that constituted the cheap and popular print trade during the period, these essays delve into ballads, slip songs, story books, pictures, and more to push back against neat divisions between low and high culture, or popular and high literature. The breadth and depth of the contributions give a much fuller and more nuanced picture of what was being widely published and read during this period than has previously been available. It will be of great value to scholars and students of eighteenth-century popular culture and literature, print history and the book trade, ballad and folk studies, children’s literature, and social history.
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
ISBN: 180511042X
Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 236
Book Description
This deeply researched collection offers a comprehensive introduction to the eighteenth-century trade in street literature – ballads, chapbooks, and popular prints – in England and Scotland. Offering detailed studies of a selection of the printers, types of publication, and places of publication that constituted the cheap and popular print trade during the period, these essays delve into ballads, slip songs, story books, pictures, and more to push back against neat divisions between low and high culture, or popular and high literature. The breadth and depth of the contributions give a much fuller and more nuanced picture of what was being widely published and read during this period than has previously been available. It will be of great value to scholars and students of eighteenth-century popular culture and literature, print history and the book trade, ballad and folk studies, children’s literature, and social history.
Street Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century
Author: David Atkinson
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527502759
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
For centuries, street literature was the main cheap reading material of the working classes: broadsides, chapbooks, songsters, prints, engravings, and other forms of print produced specifically to suit their taste and cheap enough for even the poor to buy. Starting in the sixteenth century, but at its chaotic and flamboyant peak in the nineteenth, street literature was on sale everywhere – in urban streets and alleyways, at country fairs and markets, at major sporting events and holiday gatherings, and under the gallows at public executions. For this very reason, it was often despised and denigrated by the educated classes, but remained enduringly popular with the ordinary people. Anything and everything was grist to the printers’ mill, if it would sell. A penny could buy you a celebrity scandal, a report of a gruesome murder, the last dying speech of a condemned criminal, wonder tales, riddles and conundrums, a moral tale of religious danger and redemption, a comic tale of drunken husbands and shrewish wives, a temperance tract or an ode to beer, a satire on dandies, an alphabet or “reed-a-ma-daisy” (reading made easy) to teach your children, an illustrated chapbook of nursery rhymes, or the adventures of Robin Hood and Jack the Giant Killer. Street literature long held its own by catering directly for the ordinary people, at a price they could afford, but, by the end of the Victorian era, it was in terminal decline and was rapidly being replaced by a host of new printed materials in the shape of cheap newspapers and magazines, penny dreadful novels, music hall songbooks, and so on, all aimed squarely at the burgeoning mass market. Fascinating today for the unique light it shines on the lives of the ordinary people of the age, street literature has long been neglected as a historical resource, and this collection of essays is the first general book on the trade for over forty years.
Publisher: Cambridge Scholars Publishing
ISBN: 1527502759
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 387
Book Description
For centuries, street literature was the main cheap reading material of the working classes: broadsides, chapbooks, songsters, prints, engravings, and other forms of print produced specifically to suit their taste and cheap enough for even the poor to buy. Starting in the sixteenth century, but at its chaotic and flamboyant peak in the nineteenth, street literature was on sale everywhere – in urban streets and alleyways, at country fairs and markets, at major sporting events and holiday gatherings, and under the gallows at public executions. For this very reason, it was often despised and denigrated by the educated classes, but remained enduringly popular with the ordinary people. Anything and everything was grist to the printers’ mill, if it would sell. A penny could buy you a celebrity scandal, a report of a gruesome murder, the last dying speech of a condemned criminal, wonder tales, riddles and conundrums, a moral tale of religious danger and redemption, a comic tale of drunken husbands and shrewish wives, a temperance tract or an ode to beer, a satire on dandies, an alphabet or “reed-a-ma-daisy” (reading made easy) to teach your children, an illustrated chapbook of nursery rhymes, or the adventures of Robin Hood and Jack the Giant Killer. Street literature long held its own by catering directly for the ordinary people, at a price they could afford, but, by the end of the Victorian era, it was in terminal decline and was rapidly being replaced by a host of new printed materials in the shape of cheap newspapers and magazines, penny dreadful novels, music hall songbooks, and so on, all aimed squarely at the burgeoning mass market. Fascinating today for the unique light it shines on the lives of the ordinary people of the age, street literature has long been neglected as a historical resource, and this collection of essays is the first general book on the trade for over forty years.
The Book lover
Author:
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 330
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Publisher:
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Category : Literature
Languages : en
Pages : 330
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Catalogue of English and American Chapbooks and Broadside Ballads in Harvard College Library
Author: Harvard University. Library
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Category : Ballads
Languages : en
Pages : 196
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Category : Ballads
Languages : en
Pages : 196
Book Description
Forgotten Books of the American Nursery
Author: Rosalie Vrylina Halsey
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 137
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Forgotten Books of the American Nursery" (A History of the Development of the American Story-Book) by Rosalie Vrylina Halsey. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Publisher: DigiCat
ISBN:
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 137
Book Description
DigiCat Publishing presents to you this special edition of "Forgotten Books of the American Nursery" (A History of the Development of the American Story-Book) by Rosalie Vrylina Halsey. DigiCat Publishing considers every written word to be a legacy of humankind. Every DigiCat book has been carefully reproduced for republishing in a new modern format. The books are available in print, as well as ebooks. DigiCat hopes you will treat this work with the acknowledgment and passion it deserves as a classic of world literature.
Records
Author: Glasgow Bibliographical Society
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 282
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Bibliography
Languages : en
Pages : 282
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Catalogue of the Printed Books in the Library of the British Museum
Author: British Library
Publisher:
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 756
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Publisher:
ISBN:
Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 756
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