Description
This collection is comprised of original chapbooks from England published in the nineteenth century. These chapbooks include
song books, lesson books, fortune telling guides, natural histories, histories, and other ephemera. The term “chapbook” was
first used in 1824, according to the Oxford English Dictionary, and is used to represent a genre of small, usually pocket-sized
booklets. The genre encompasses many kinds of printed material, including pamphlets, tracts, nursery rhymes, songs, and folk
tales.