Folk in Print: Scotland's Chapbook Heritage, 1750-1850John Donald, 2007 - 438 pages Though they represent a great unmined treasure-trove of history, literature and popular culture, chapbooks have been incomprehensibly and disgracefully ignored. This title presents a study of this form of publication. |
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Page 31
... printers , whose profit margins , in any case , were exceedingly slender . Auld Hawkie could buy 8 - page chapbooks from the printer at twopence a dozen and in three hours would have realised six shillings . On another occasion he paid ...
... printers , whose profit margins , in any case , were exceedingly slender . Auld Hawkie could buy 8 - page chapbooks from the printer at twopence a dozen and in three hours would have realised six shillings . On another occasion he paid ...
Page 33
... printers ; 16 reams of 24 pagers bought him a 10 - volume edition of the theological works of John 2 A printer's ream was 516 sheets , or twenty - one and a half quires . A quire is a set of four sheets of paper doubled to form eight ...
... printers ; 16 reams of 24 pagers bought him a 10 - volume edition of the theological works of John 2 A printer's ream was 516 sheets , or twenty - one and a half quires . A quire is a set of four sheets of paper doubled to form eight ...
Page 434
... printers , 12 , 16 , 17 earliest , 21 , 41 Edinburgh , 21-2 Gaelic chapbooks , 325 , 326 Glasgow , 19 , 22 , 25 , 26 , 29 , 34 ... printer ) , 74 , 90 , 193 , 208 , 225 Robertson , James & Matthew ( Glasgow printers ) , 434 Folk in Print ...
... printers , 12 , 16 , 17 earliest , 21 , 41 Edinburgh , 21-2 Gaelic chapbooks , 325 , 326 Glasgow , 19 , 22 , 25 , 26 , 29 , 34 ... printer ) , 74 , 90 , 193 , 208 , 225 Robertson , James & Matthew ( Glasgow printers ) , 434 Folk in Print ...
Contents
Acknowledgements ΙΟ | 9 |
The Chapmen | 41 |
The Folk in their Condition | 65 |
Copyright | |
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