{"id":423,"date":"2013-09-28T08:17:19","date_gmt":"2013-09-28T08:17:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.tavbooks.com\/?p=423"},"modified":"2013-10-02T14:55:30","modified_gmt":"2013-10-02T14:55:30","slug":"chapbooks-a-short-list-for-september","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.tavbooks.com\/?p=423","title":{"rendered":"Chapbooks: A [Short] List for September"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chapbooks.<\/p>\n

A meanly produced publishing phenomenon, Carter & Barker, in the 8th\u00a0ABC<\/i>, describe them thusly: “Small pamphlets of popular, sensational, juvenile, moral or educational character, originally distributed by chapmen or hawkers, not by booksellers.”<\/p>\n

If one dips into Neuberg’s\u00a0CHAPBOOK\u00a0BIBLIOGRAPHY<\/i>, we find this genre had “by 1700, [become] an important part of the [chapman’s] stock-in-trade … whose varied subject matter included devils, angels, scoundrels, heroes, love, hate, fairy tales, religion, fables, shipwreck, executions, prophecies and fortune telling. …\u00a0 During the eighteenth century\u00a0chapbooks formed the main reading matter for the poor.”\u00a0 Though around for centuries, the\u00a0chapbook, as a viable publishing genre, had mostly expired towards the end of the 19th C, except as Carter noted, “as a conscious archaism.”<\/p>\n

Despite oft being an object of acquisition by collectors, one can still find these little volumes floating about, and offered at [comparatively] modest prices such that building a pleasing & extensive collection of these modest works is not beyond the means of the ‘average’ person [however such a term may be defined].<\/p>\n

Here then is Tavistock Books’ list for September<\/a>.\u00a0 A small cache of 30\u00a0chapbooks, primarily for children, primarly American, primarily 19th Century.\u00a0 Prices range from a modest $45 to a decidely robust $2000, for one that will be found in David Block’s ground breaking work,\u00a0BASEBALL BEFORE WE KNEW IT<\/i>.\u00a0 Many titles offered are the only copy on the market; one or two not found on OCLC.<\/p>\n

Should you have queries regarding any of this material, or other listings you may find on our site, please contact us<\/a>. \u00a0We thank you for your attention, and we hope you find something of interest while browsing these offerings.<\/p>\n

REFERENCES CITED<\/strong><\/p>\n

Cataloguing chapbooks is a task both challenging and engaging, as evidenced by the list of sources used to catalogue this month’s list of select acquisitions.<\/p>\n

American Imprints<\/i>.\u00a0\u00a0AMERICAN BIBLIOGRAPHY. A Preliminary Checklist. 1801 – 1846.<\/b>\u00a0 NY [et al]: Scarecrow Pres, 1958-1997.<\/p>\n

Arndt & Eck<\/i>.\u00a0\u00a0The FIRST CENTURY Of GERMAN LANGUAGE PRINTING In The UNITED STATES Of AMERICA<\/b>.\u00a0 G\u00f6ttingen: 1989.<\/p>\n

BAL<\/i>.\u00a0 Blanck, Jacob [et al].\u00a0\u00a0BIBLIOGRAPHY Of AMERICAN LITERATURE.\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0New Haven: 1955 – 1991.<\/p>\n

Block, David.\u00a0\u00a0BASEBALL BEFORE WE KNEW IT.\u00a0 A Search for the Roots of the Game.\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0Lincoln: (2005).<\/p>\n

Cappon & Brown<\/i>.\u00a0\u00a0NEW MARKET, VIRGINIA, IMPRINTS 1806 – 1876.\u00a0 A Check-list.\u00a0<\/b><\/span>\u00a0Charlottesville: 1942.<\/p>\n

Church<\/i>.\u00a0 Cole, George Watson – Compiler.\u00a0\u00a0A CATALOGUE Of BOOKS Relating to The Discovery and Early History of North and South America Forming a Part of the Library of E. D. Church.\u00a0<\/b><\/span>\u00a0NY: Peter Smith, 1951.<\/p>\n

Cropper, Percy J.\u00a0\u00a0The NOTTINGHAMSHIRE PRINTED\u00a0CHAP-BOOKS, with Notices of Their Printers and Vendors.\u00a0<\/b>1892.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Davis, Roger.\u00a0\u00a0KENDREW Of YORK and His\u00a0Chapbooks\u00a0for Children.<\/b>\u00a0 Elmete Press, 1988.<\/p>\n

ESTC<\/i>.\u00a0\u00a0ENGLISH SHORT TITLE CATALOGUE.<\/b>\u00a0\u00a0http:\/\/estc.bl.uk<\/a><\/p>\n

Gumuchian<\/i>.\u00a0\u00a0Les LIVRES De L’ENFANCE du XVe au XIXe Si\u00e8cle.<\/b>\u00a0 London: Holland Press, 1985.<\/p>\n

Hamilton, Sinclair.\u00a0\u00a0EARLY AMERICAN\u00a0BOOK\u00a0ILLUSTRATORS And WOOD ENGRAVERS. 1670-1870.<\/b>\u00a0 Princeton: 1968.<\/p>\n

Heartman, Charles F.\u00a0\u00a0The NEW ENGLAND PRIMER Issued Prior to 1830.\u00a0<\/b>\u00a01922.<\/p>\n

[-].\u00a0\u00a0AMERICAN PRIMERS. INDIAN PRIMERS. ROYAL PRIMERS.\u00a0 And Thirty-Seven Other Types of non-New-England Primers Issued Prior to 1830<\/b>.\u00a0 Highland Park: 1935.<\/p>\n

NCBEL<\/i>.\u00a0\u00a0The NEW CAMBRIDGE BIBLIOGRAPHY Of ENGLISH LITERATURE.<\/b>\u00a0 Cambridge: 1969 – 1977.<\/p>\n

NUC<\/i>.\u00a0\u00a0NATIONAL UNION CATALOGUE.\u00a0 Pre-1956 Imprints.<\/b><\/p>\n

Opie, Iona & Peter.\u00a0\u00a0The OXFORD DICTIONARY Of NURSERY RHYMES.\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0Oxford: (1951).<\/p>\n

Osborne.\u00a0\u00a0The OSBORNE COLLECTION Of EARLY CHILDREN’S BOOKS 1566-1910.<\/b>\u00a0 Toronto: TPL, 1975.<\/p>\n

Rosenbach, A.S.W.\u00a0\u00a0EARLY AMERICAN CHILDREN’S BOOKS.<\/b>\u00a0 NY: Dover, 1971.<\/p>\n

Spencer<\/i>.\u00a0\u00a0A CATALOGUE Of The SPENCER COLLECTION Of EARLY CHILDREN’S\u00a0BOOK\u00a0And\u00a0CHAPBOOKS.<\/b>\u00a0 Preston: 1967.<\/p>\n

Weiss, Harry B.\u00a0\u00a0SAMUEL WOOD & SONS. Early New York Publishers of Children’s Books.\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0NY: 1942.<\/p>\n

Welch, d’Alt\u00e9 A.\u00a0\u00a0A BIBLIOGRAPHY Of AMERICAN CHILDREN’S BOOKS Printed Prior to 1821.<\/b>\u00a0 Worcester: AAS, 1972.<\/p>\n

Wust.\u00a0\u00a0THREE HUNDRED YEARS Of GERMAN IMMIGRANTS In NORTH AMERICA 1683-1983<\/b><\/span>.\u00a0<\/b>\u00a0 1983.<\/p>\n

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