Glasgow: Printed for the Booksellers, [1840-1850]. “Care to our coffin adds a nail no doubt, while every laugh so merry draws one out.” A pleasant chapbook with a number of humorous, and somewhat crude, repartees, each taking up about half a page each. 16mo. [2], [3]-24pp. Dated per NLS.....
Philadelphia: Johnson and Warner, 1811. Lovely chapbook filled with illustrations. Much scarcer than later printings. Rosenbach 448. Shaw-Shoemaker 24052. Welch 215. 12 cm.16 pp. + 8 leaves of plates ill., with first and last pasted down to covers as usual.
Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 1122 Chestnut Street, [n.d., between 1853 and 1870]. Well-illustrated chapbook with a woodcut on each page. 32mo. [2], 3-8pp. In yellow publisher’s wraps.
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London: J. Marshall & R. White; Bath: S. Hazard, [1795]. A scarce Cheap Repository printing of the story of James Maclean, who was executed at the infamous Tyburn tree on October 3, 1750, following a short but successful stint as a highwayman who rid his victims of their possessions in.....
American Sunday-School Union, 146 Chestnut Street: Philadelphia, [n.d. between 1827-1853]. Miniature. 8pp. In publisher’s yellow wraps, which are variant from the UF copy both in color and this copy has a woodcut of a fly on the rear wrap.
Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 146 Chestnut Street, [n.d. between 1827-1853]. 32mo. [1], 2-7pp., [1]. A brief but heavily illustrated chapbook, featuring a woodcut on each page. In self wrappers.
Philadelphia: American S.[unday] School Union, 146 Chestnut Street, [n.d. between 1827-1853]. Brief chapbook with one woodcut illustration and the ominous warning to the presumably impressionable young audience, “take warning in from these examples, and remember that life and health are given thee only to prepare for the tremendous and important.....
Philadelphia: American Sunday-School Union, 1122 Chestnut Street; New York: 375 Broadway, n.d., but see OCLC 905659420 calculating date to roughly 1867]. 32mo. [2], 5-16pp. In publisher’s wraps.
Boston: Published at the Christian Register Office, 1827. Moralistic juvenile chapbook featuring five woodcuts. 34pp. Shoemaker 27787.
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York: J. Kendrew, [n.d., circa 1820s]. A charming Kendrew chapbook featuring the classic Cinderella fairy tale with a woodcut on every page. “And now her god-mother came in, and touched her with her wand, When, lo! her rags were turn’d to robes, the richest in the land.”...
London: Printed for J. Wright, No. 169, Piccadilly, 1798. First Edition. First edition of a British patriotic screed against a potential French invasion and the threat of “Gallic oppression.” Scarce. 12mo. 20pp. ESTC T59443.
Stourbridge: Heming and Tallis, [n.d., ca. 1814-15]. The rare sole edition of the separately printed pamphlet, containing excerpts of Banck’s A Short Critical Review of the Political Life of Oliver Cromwell. . ., originally published in 1739 (though many of the passages in the instant work are lifted verbatim not.....
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New York: New York: Published by Charles Wiley. . . 1824. An operetta and a comic drama bound together in eternal bliss. The latter work is from the most famous actor of the eighteenth century. 32mo. 30pp.; 41pp.
York: J. Kendrew, [1820]. A charming 48mo chapbook. In its 16 pages, it was able to fit 16 woodcuts. Kendrew, despite being a provincial printer in York was one of the most prominent printers of nineteenth century children’s chapbooks until his death in 1841. This instant book was from his.....
London: Printed for the Author; and Sold by G. Robinson, in Pater-noster-Row; W. Charnley, and T. Slack, in Newcastle, 1775. First Edition. First edition polemic satire in Hudibrastic verse on a corrupt Newcastle election. Down with the corporations. 8vo. vii, [9]-35pp. ESTC T185203. Goldsmiths’ 11364. Higgs 6497. RBH shows.....
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Derby: Printed by Henry Mozley, [circa 1830]. Scarce provincially-published chapbook. 48mo. 8pp. 5th edition. Scarce with one copy located on OCLC as of March 2024 (and only three copies total of all editions).
Stirling: W. Macnie, Bookseller, [n.d. 1820-1831]. A charming provincial chapbook from local Stirling chapbook printer William Macnie. A short collection of ballads. With a vignette on the title page of a gentleman cutting down a tree with a very large axe. Macnie apparently produced around 110 chapbooks under his.....
London: Charles Dolman, 1851. First Edition. First edition of Pugin's pamphlet wherein he again attempted to venture into theological matters creating quite a controversy, and one of the last works he wrote prior to his death in 1852. Belcher A56.
