Chapbooks (18 results)

Trade paperback. Condition: Fine. No previous owner's name SC 133. B. Shisler (illustrator).

Soft cover. Condition: Very Good. 36 pages. Louis Becke 1855-1913 works published (3 published) / Rachael Cohen "A Book Collector" / Tauchnitz Of Leipzig 901-1000 / Walter Crane titles & Horn Books & Kate Greenaway titles sold at Sotheby's on 16 March 1970 Hugh Gordon Porteus "A Few Dry Leaves" / A A Milne titles & Chapbooks sold at Sotheby's 16 March 1970.…

Hardcover, in dust jacket. Condition: Near Fine. dj. First American edition, first printing. Very slight lean, else fine in near fine, spine-sunned dust jacket, in mylar cover. Illustrated with facsimiles of seven chapbooks (illustrator).

Condition: Very Good. 27 pages with some illustrations. The Library is a scholarly journal for the study of the history of books, printing, and bibliography, interested in all aspects of descriptive, analytical, textual, and historical bibliography, including the economic history of the production and distribution of books, the history of collecting and of specific libraries, the physical making of texts, including paper, type, illustration, and binding, scholarly transmissions and the authenticity of texts. An authentic standalone article, extracted from a larger volume. Not a reprint or reproduction, but an original work in its own right. Preserved in a modern card cover, prepared for practicality - an unassuming but serviceable presentation that favours function over finery. Size: 18 x 25 cms. Category: The Library : Bibliographical Society; Cosmo Books : 29 years on ABE, 47 years taking care of customers. A bookseller you can rely on. Softcover (Booklet - Unbound Pages).…

Soft Covers. Condition: Very Good. No Jacket. First Edition Thus. Translated from the French by Rev.P.H.Wicksteed. 28 pages. One of the Aldine Chapbooks. Roberta F.C.Waudby (illustrator).

Self-wrappers. Condition: Good. [Manchester: A. Swindells, printer, n.d.]. 5 15/16 x 3 5/8". 8pp. Self-wrappers, unsewn, as issued. Some soiling and two small stains in lower margin of p. 8. Late 18th/early 19th century edition.

First Edition, gilt cloth. Tall 8vo, c.pp160 with numerous illus, very good. Excellent study. Includes also c.30pp facsimile illustrations of chapbooks. **** To confirm availability before ordering, please click the link Ask Bookseller A Question.

Condition: Good. No Dust Jacket. Booklet / Chapbook. 24 pages and 16 pages. Both are Paperback : soft cover edition in good to better condition, a typical used book with slight wear to edges and spine. Overall good / nice copy of this scarce title. Excellent reading on the subject. A good book to enjoy and keep on hand for yourself. Or would make a GREAT GIFT for the fan / reader in your life. Reading is one of the great pleasures in life. 2 books in one lot. Full Color Illustrations (illustrator). Book.…

[San Francisco]: White Knight Press 1940-1941. 2 parts, 8vo, each 5pp. Original printed red wrappers, fine. § Each limited to 125 copies. Compliments slip of David L. Christianson in one part.

Various paginations. 19 facsimile chapbooks, each with illustrated separate title-page, some with text ills. Original red roan gilt backed green cloth boards, uncut. Neat repair to spine head. Relevant papmphlet loosely inserted.

3 Volumes. 12mo. each chapbook separately paginated. numerous woodcut illus. incl. title vignettes. Fine uncut copies in modern quarter roan over older cloth covers (Vol. I green cloth, Vols. II & III red cloth, Vols. II & II mislabeled). First Collected Edition. Including 58 chapbooks: Volume I is devoted to comic and humorous chapbooks (Adventures of Bamfylde Moore Carew, Daniel O'Rouke's Voyage to the Moon, The Wise Men of Gotham, The Scotch Haggis; or, Choice Bon-Mots, &c.), Volume II to religious and scriptural chapbooks (The Life of John Knox, The Pilgrim's Progress, The New Pictorial Bible, The Life and Death of Judas Iscariot, &c.), and Volume III to fairy tales, romances and histories (Cinderella, and the Babes in the Wood, Jack the Giant Killer, Ali Baba, and the Forty Thieves, the Life of William Wallace, &c.).…

[2], 5pp, [5]. OCLC records a single copy (Chicago). [Bound after:] [Drop-head title:] Park's entertaining fairy tale of the magic legacy. London. Published by A. Park, [s.d., c. 1835] 8pp. OCLC and COPAC together record a single copy (BL). [And:] [Drop-head title:] Park's entertaining fairy tale of beauty and the beast. [London]. [Printed by A. Park], [s.d., c. 1835] 8pp. OCLC and COPAC together record a single copy (BL). [And:] [Drop-head title:] The old woman of stepney. [London]. Ryle & Co., [s.d., c. 1835] 8pp. Apparently unrecorded. 16mo. Contemporary burgundy cloth-backed powder blue paper boards, lettered in manuscript 'Stories for Children No. 3' to upper board. A trifle rubbed, ink- stain to spine and lower board. Book-label initialled in manuscript 'B.M.' and early inked ownership inscription of George Morris to FEP, manuscript list of contents to verso of FFEP, early alternate pagination in manuscript to upper corners. A charming collection of chapbook rarities, including The butterfly's funeral, a 'sequel' to writer and abolitionist William Roscoe's (1753-1831) most commercial poem, The Butterfly's Ball, and the Grasshopper's Feast (1807). The final bound work, The old woman of stepney, is unrecorded by the usual databases, and concerns an aged crone with a plum tree in place of a nose. The publisher, Alnwick-born James Catnach (1792-1841), is primarily remembered for his prolific broadsheet printing endeavours. In order to satisfy the demands of the urban public for more grittily realistic reading matter than the, largely rural, popular ballad tradition afforded, Catnach commissioned a constant stream of sensational ephemera on the interests of the day. Many of his broadsheets were sold by 'patterers', who would perform as well as selling their wares, bridging the divide between the oral and printed ballad. Printed crudely on the cheapest paper available, the broadsheets were primarily sold at the price of one penny; Catnach was reputed to have paved his parlour with counterfeit coins.…

24pp. With a woodcut frontispiece and several woodcut illustrations in the text. Apparently unrecorded. [Bound with:] Little Folk's Books. The story of Little Maia. Edited by the Madame de Chatelain. [London]. [Darton & Co.], [s.d. c. 1855]. [16]pp. OCLC records copies at just two locations (Princeton and Toronto). Darton H150. [And:] The little fortune seekers. London. Groombridge and Sons, [s.d. c. 1855]. 23pp, [1]. With a woodcut frontispiece and several woodcut illustrations in the text. OCLC and COPAC combined record copies at just five locations (BL, Cambridge, Florida, Kent, and Oxford). [And:] The story of a daisy. London. Groombridge and Sons, [s.d. c. 1855]. 24pp. With a woodcut frontispiece and several woodcut illustrations in the text. OCLC and COPAC combined record copies at just four locations (BL, Morgan, Kent, and Oxford). [And:] Rover and his friends. London. Groombridge and Sons, [s.d. c. 1855]. 23pp, [1]. With a woodcut frontispiece and several woodcut illustrations in the text. OCLC and COPAC combined record copies at just five locations (BL, Cambridge, Florida, Morgan, and Oxford). [And:] The fishermen's children. London. Groombridge and Sons, [s.d. c. 1855]. 24pp. OCLC and COPAC combined record copies at just four locations (BL, Florida, Morgan, and Texas). [And:] Rabbits and peewits. London. Groombridge & Sons, [s.d. c. 1855]. 24pp. With a woodcut frontispiece and several woodcut illustrations in the text. OCLC and COPAC combined record copies at just seven locations (BL, Cambridge, Florida, Kent, Morgan, Oxford, and Oxford Brookes). [And:] The child's search for fairies. London. Groombridge and Sons, [s.d. c. 1855]. 24pp. OCLC and COPAC combined record copies at just four locations (BL, Cambridge, Florida, and Morgan). [And:] The blackberry gathering. London. Groombridge and Sons, [s.d. c. 1855]. 22pp, [2]. OCLC and COPAC combined record copies at just five locations (BL, Cambridge, Florida, Kent, and Morgan). [And:] Little charley. London. Groombridge and Sons, [s.d. c. 1855]. 23pp, [1]. With a woodcut frontispiece and several woodcut illustrations in the text. OCLC and COPAC combined record copies at just five locations (BL, Cambridge, Florida, Kent, and Morgan). [And:] Little frank. London. Groombridge and Sons, [s.d. c. 1855]. 23pp, [1]. With a woodcut frontispiece and several woodcut illustrations in the text. OCLC and COPAC combined record copies at just six locations (BL, Cambridge, Florida, Kent, Oxford, and V&A). [And:] Alice and her bird. London. Groombridge and Sons, [s.d. c. 1855]. 24pp. With a woodcut frontispiece and several woodcut illustrations in the text. OCLC and COPAC combined record copies at just five locations (BL, Cambridge, Florida, Morgan, and Oxford). [And:] The fir tree's story. London. Groombridge and Sons, [s.d. c. 1855]. 23pp, [1]. With a woodcut frontispiece and several woodcut illustrations in the text. OCLC and COPAC combined record copies at just five locations (BL, Cambridge, Florida, Kent, and Oxford). 12mo. Contemporary red roan, lettered 'Buds & Blossoms' in gilt to spine. Rubbed, spine worn and singed. Early inked gift inscriptions to versos of frontispieces. A coherent sammelband of thirteen juvenile productions, all remarkably scarce â" and one entirely unrecorded - the majority issued by prolific children's publisher Groombridge and Sons, established in 1833. One of only two exceptions not published by Groombridge is a rare survival of Clare de Chatelain's (1807-1876) The Story of Little Maia, initially issued by Darton under their 'Little Folk's Books' series and then reprinted in the author's six-part Tales of the Fairy Folk (c. 1855). The other exception is an early edition of Little Peepy; a charming conduct of life story of a little girl who sacrifices her only shilling to rescue a robin from the torture of two odious boys, initially published by Groombridge in 1853, commonly attributed to sometime editor for the Religious Tract Society George Eliel Sarge.…

8pp. With eight hand-coloured engraved illustrations in the text. [Bound with:] The history of tom thumb. [Otley]. [Yorkshire J. S. Publishing & Stationery Co.], [s.d., c. 1865]. 8pp. With eight hand-coloured engraved illustrations in the text. [And:] Hare and many friends. [Otley]. [Yorkshire J. S. Publishing & Stationery Co.], [s.d., c. 1865]. [8]pp. With eight hand-coloured engraved illustrations in the text. [And:] Entertaining views. [Otley]. [Yorkshire J. S. Publishing & Stationery Co.], [s.d., c. 1865]. [8]pp. With eight hand-coloured engraved illustrations in the text. [And:] Robinson crusoe. [Otley]. [Yorkshire J. S. Publishing & Stationery Co.], [s.d., c. 1865]. 8pp. With eight hand-coloured engraved illustrations in the text. [And:] Jack the giant killer. [Otley]. [Yorkshire J. S. Publishing & Stationery Co.], [s.d., c. 1865]. 8pp. With eight hand-coloured engraved illustrations in the text. [And:] Little red riding hood. [Otley]. [Yorkshire J. S. Publishing & Stationery Co.], [s.d., c. 1865]. 8pp. With eight hand-coloured engraved illustrations in the text. [And:] Scenes from nature. [Otley]. [Yorkshire J. S. Publishing & Stationery Co.], [s.d., c. 1865]. [8]pp. With eight hand-coloured engraved illustrations in the text. [And:] Old dame trot. [Otley]. [Yorkshire J. S. Publishing & Stationery Co.], [s.d., c. 1865]. 8pp. With eight hand-coloured engraved illustrations in the text. [And:] Mother hubbard. [Otley]. [Yorkshire J. S. Publishing & Stationery Co.], [s.d., c. 1865]. 8pp. With eight hand-coloured engraved illustrations in the text. [And:] Capitals of europe. [Otley]. [Yorkshire J. S. Publishing & Stationery Co.], [s.d., c. 1865]. [8]pp. With eight hand-coloured engraved illustrations in the text. [And:] The house that jack built. [Otley]. [Yorkshire J. S. Publishing & Stationery Co.], [s.d., c. 1865]. 8pp. With eight hand-coloured engraved illustrations in the text. [And:] Death & burial of cock robin. [Otley]. [Yorkshire J. S. Publishing & Stationery Co.], [s.d., c. 1865]. 8pp. With eight hand-coloured engraved illustrations in the text. [And:] Cock robin and jenny wren. [Otley]. [Yorkshire J. S. Publishing & Stationery Co.], [s.d., c. 1865]. 8pp. With eight hand-coloured engraved illustrations in the text. [And:] Old man and his as. [Otley]. [Yorkshire J. S. Publishing & Stationery Co.], [s.d., c. 1865]. [8]pp. With eight hand-coloured engraved illustrations in the text. [And:] History of peter brown. [Otley]. [Yorkshire J. S. Publishing & Stationery Co.], [s.d., c. 1865]. [8]pp. With eight hand-coloured engraved illustrations in the text. 8vo. Later gilt-ruled red limp morocco, A.E.G. Original publisher's pictorial upper wrappers bound in. Lightly rubbed. Marbled endpapers, recent armorial bookplate of John Gordon to FEP. A complete series run of sixteen scarce children's chapbooks issued by The Yorkshire Joint Stock Publishing and Stationery Company. The company purchased the premises of Otley-based printer Webb Millington in 1862. Their publications, predominantly chapbooks, toy books, and pictorial lessons, commonly used Webb Millington's old 'stock-blocks'. This re-use of texts, woodcuts, and engravings make dating uncertain. The company does not appear to have survived beyond 1875. …

8 works in 1 volume. Fine collection of 8 French chapbook editions, all "Bibliothèque bleue" printed in Troyes, and all but one (ad 7) published by members of the printer-family Garnier. Although these popular works, mostly dating from the Middle Ages, were many times republished - up till the present time - only a few copies survive, making each work in this collection rare. The present copy belonged to the 19th-century architect Viollet Leduc, the restorator of the Notre Dame Church at Paris.Ad 1: Adventurous story about a king in Constantinople who, after the death of his wife, wants to marry his own daughter, Hélène. She runs away and marries the king of England, after which she goes through many adventures. Ad 2: One of the best chapbooks of German origin, here in a French edition. Fortunatus and his children own an inexhaustible purse which makes all their dreams come true, but ultimately leads them to their destruction. Ad 3: The oldest original French comic and facetious romance. The first edition appeared ca. 1530-1540. The story is not based on history, but on pure folklore, and is full of comical events and French "esprit". The father of the protagonist, Jean de Paris, had been called upon to help the Spanish king against his rebellious barons and was promised the king's daughter in marriage, although she was then only three years old. Ad 4: Nisard ascribes the present work to Mme de Gomez, Madeleine-Angélique Poisson, daughter of the comedy player Paul Poisson, and wife of Don Gabriel de Gomez, a Spaniard. Ad 5: Famous French novel about chivalry, dating from the 13th century, but first published in Lyon, 1496. Ad 6: Another famous French novel, a continuation of the adventures of Robert le Diable, also dating from the 13th century, and first published in Lyon, 1497. Here the hero is Robert le Diable's son, Richard sans Peur.Ad 7: All popular editions of Gargantua, including the present, go back to a printed edition of 1528, preceding Rabelais' edition of 1535 and actually forming the basis of his famous Gargantua. Ad 8: Famous picaresque novel, originating from Germany and the Low Countries, but with important Flemish, French, and English traditions.With a small purple binder's ticket and the white ex libris book plate of Viollet Leduc on the front paste-down. The spine and the edges of the boards are slightly scuffed, pp. 21-22 shows a large tear in the bottom margin, slightly browned throughout.l Ad 8: Koopmans-Verhuyck 52; none of these editions in Oberlé, La Bibliothèque Bleue: cf. 86; 275; 109; 103; 92; 105; 264; 269-271; cf. Nisard II, p. 459; 435; 450; 485; 495; I, 535; 544. 19th-century half dark blue morocco, decorated paper sides, gold-tooled spine with "Bibliothèque bleu" lettered in gold, marbled edges, marbled endpapers, bound by Vanette in Paris. Ad 1: With a (faint) woodcut illustration on the title-page, 3 woodcut illustrations in the text, and some woodcut tail-pieces. Ad 2: With a woodcut illustration on the title-page and some woodcut head- and tail-pieces. Ad 3: With a large woodcut illustration on the title-page, a large woodcut head-piece at the start of the text and some small woodcut tail-pieces. Ad 4: With a woodcut ornament on the title-page and a large woodcut head-piece at the start of the text. Ad 5: With a woodcut illustration on the title-page, 4 woodcut illustrations in the text, and a woodcut head-piece. Ad 6: With a woodcut ornament on the title-page and a large woodcut head-piece at the start of the text. Ad 7: With a woodcut ornament on the title-page and a head-piece built up from typographical ornaments at the start of the text. Ad 8: With a woodcut illustration on the title-page and a head-piece built up from typographical ornaments at the start of the text. Pages: 95, [1]; [1], [1 blank], [6], 154, [5], [1 blank]; 47, [1]; 46, [1], [1 blank]; 46, [1], [1 blank]; 46, [1], [1 blank]; 48; 46, [2 blank] pp. With:(2) [FORTUNATUS]. Histoire des avantures heureuses et malheureuses.…

TWO UNRECORDED PARISIAN EXAMPLES OF COLPORTAGE, WITH A COLORED WOODCUT FRONTISPIECE OF 'THE AMOROUS BURGLAR'. 12mo. [13.7 x 8 cm]. 108 pp & 108 pp. Bound together in contemporary quarter calf with gilt title and ornaments on spine. Excellent copies of both items, clean and fresh. Well-preserved, unrecorded pair of cheaply-printed humorous tales probably sold by colporteurs (street-hawkers). Such literature by nature survives poorly, and the present titles are wholly unrecorded in any French institutional library including the BnF, per the Catalogue Collectif de France (CCFr). Both compendia are of a similar nature, relating rather bawdy tales of eg a groom who sleeps with two sisters on his wedding night; a valet seduced by his mistress; various bad behavior by members of the clergy; a young widow's advice to her second husband; and so on. The hand-colored frontispiece likely belongs to the second title although it is bound before the first. We note that OCLC records different editions of both titles (with a full Lille imprint only) at Yale; however, neither title is recorded in any French library as noted above. …

Front. dated 23 July, 1825, each tract 12pp. with title vignette. Contemp. diced calf, brown labels. v.g. The majority by Mary Martha Sherwood or Mrs Cameron, with others by Sarah Maria Lloyd and George Mogridge.

A collection of 12 Rusher chapbooks in fine condition. Each title is 16 p., with woodcut illustrations. Bound in later half calf with marbled boards. Top edge gilt. CONTENTS: The Cries of Banbury and London, and Celebrated Stories; Poetic Trifles for Young Ladies and Gentlemen; London Jingles and Country Tales for Young People; The Book of Beasts for Young Persons; The History of Tom Thumb; Life and Adventures of Robinson Crusoe; The History of Dick Whittington, Lord Mayor of London; With the Adventures of his Cat; The interesting Story of Cinderella, and her Glass Slipper; The Interesting Story of the Babes in the Wood, an Historical Ballad; The Children in the Wood Restored, by Honestas the Hermit of the Forest; or Perfidy Detected; The Renowned History of Dame Trot and her Cat; Old Mother Hubbard and her Dog. PROVENANCE: On the rear endpaper in ink a purchase note with price code dated May [18]85, binding note with price code dated July [18]85. Later? pencil accession number No. 1119. Modern bookplate on the front board.…