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Hardcover. Condition: Very Good. 1st Edition. 1007pp 1008 p. Book.

hardcover. 7 x 10 inches. hardcover. 1,008 pages. First edition. The hundred years prior to the mid-nineteenth century saw a flowering of ephemeral publishing often referred to by the shorthand "chapbooks." This book is an analytical bibliography of the National Art Library's collection of literary ephemera of the period. For the purposes of this book, this includes entertaining and broadly educational works, such as abridged novels, alphabets, ballads, cries, dreadful, fables and tales, nursery rhymes, fortune books, garlands, histories, and natural histories. The book excludes primarily proselytizing and moralizing texts, along with battledores, cabinet and miniature books, harlequinaids, tracts, panoramas, plays, primers, and propaganda pamphlets. Also excluded are more substantial and sumptuous publications with engravings on quality paper and bound in boards as they were considered insufficiently ephemeral. Nearly 800 titles are described here in significant bibliographical detail to allow accurate comparison and verification with editions, variants, and states in other collections. Examples of illustrations from all the books described are reproduced here, providing a visual feast and resource. The book will appeal to all librarians and owners of collections containing literary and educational ephemera. It will provide support for current research into literary studies and work on literacy and language development. John Meriton is Librarian of the National Art Library and Deputy Keeper of the Word and Image Department, Victoria and Albert Museum, London. Carlo Dumontet is the National Art Library's Special Collections Bibliographer.…

Hardcover. Condition: Fine. Fine condition, large octavo, printed glazed boards (small flaws in the glaze), 1007 pages. ".analytical bibliography of the National Art Library's collection of literary ephemera (chapbooks) of the period (prior to 1850) comprises histories, tales, verse collections, primers and alphabets. Nearly 800 titles are described in significant bibliographical detail enabling accurate comparison and verification with editions, variants and states in other collections. Entries are illustrated." This is a heavy book (1.87kg.) and the price has been adjusted to include any additional postage required in the UK. Please contact us before ordering for a quotation for shipping at cost. [****HEAVY ITEM - MAY REQUIRE ADDITIONAL POSTAGE****] [QP]. …

First Edition. Pp. 1008, illustrated throughout in colour and black & white, the title page printed in red & black, tables, glossary, source list, index; thick cr. 4to; pictorial glazed papered boards, light bruise at head of spine; Oak Knoll Press/The British Library, New Castle, 2010. First edition. *An analytical illustrated bibliography of the National Art Library's large collection of chapbooks. Describes nearly 800 titles, including entertaining and educational works, abridged novels, alphabets, ballads, fables and tales, nursery rhymes, fortune books, garlands, histories, and natural histories.…