Chapbooks

fictional character from German folklore

thumbnail|Chapbook (c. 1800) of Jack the Giant Killer A chapbook is a type of small printed booklet that was a popular medium for street literature throughout early modern Europe. Chapbooks were usually produced cheaply, illustrated with crude woodcuts and printed on a single sheet folded into 8, 12, 16, or 24 pages, sometimes bound with a saddle stitch. Printers provided chapbooks on credit to chapmen, who sold them both from door to door and at markets and fairs, then paying for the stock they sold. The tradition of chapbooks emerged during the 16th century as printed books were becoming aff

poem by T.S. Eliot

single sheet of paper printed on one side; type of ballad

English fairy tale

German proto-novel, chapbook about a legendary hero; unknown author

genre of Early Modern French literature

18th & 19th century Popular bulletin depicting criminals

thumb|250px|Title page of Die Schildburger, 1854The picture illustrates the tale how the Schildburger wanted to feed a bull with the grass on the roof The Schildbürger ("residents of Schilda") are residents of Schilda, a fictional (not the actual Schilda) German town of fools, a butt of jokes in German Volksbuch (chapbook) tradition corresponding to the Wise Men of Gotham in English-language tradition.

nursery rhyme

Poems in Prose by Oscar Wilde