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CHAPBOOK BIBLIOGRAPHY

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Alderson, Brian and Felix de Marez Oyens. Be Merry and Wise: Origins of Children's Book Publishing in England, 1650-1850. New York: The Pierpont Morgan Library; The Bibliographical Society of America. London: British Library; Oak Knoll, New Castle, DE, 2006.

[Information Sciences Library: REF Z1037 .A24A53 2006]

Ashton, John. Chapbooks of the Eighteenth Century. London: Chatto and Windus, 1882. 
[ENR PR972 A7]

Barry, Florence Valentine. A Century of Children's Books. New York: George H. Doran, 1923. 
[ENR Z1037 A1B28 1923]

Brown, Philip A.H. London Publishers and Printers, c. 1800-1870. London: British Library, 1982. 
[Hillman Library Special Collection Z327 B87 1982]

Carter, John. ABC for Book Collectors. 6th ed. London: Granada Publishing, 1980. 
[ENR Z1006 C37 1980 (1985)] [Note: 7th ed. reprints also available.]

Catalogue of English and American Chapbooks and Broadside Ballads in Harvard College Library. Comp. by Charles Welsh and William H. Tillinghast. Cambridge, Mass., 1905. Reprint: Detroit: Sing Tree Press, 1968. 
[Information Sciences Library REF Z2014 C4H19 1905b]

Cowen, Edward J. and Mike Paterson. Folk in Print: Scotland's Chapbook Heritage, 1750-1850. Edinburgh: John Donald, 2007.

[Information Sciences Library: PR8624 .C69 2007]

Davis, Roger. Kendrew of York and his Chapbooks for Children: with a Checklist. Collingham, England: Elmete Press, 1988. 
[ENR Z1037 D229 1988]

Field, Louise Frances Story. The Child and his Book: Some Account of the History and Progress of Children's Literature in England. London: Wells Gardner, Darton, 1892. 
[ENR Z1037 A1F45 1892]

Harris Public Library. A Catalogue of the Spencer Collection of Early Children's Books and Chapbooks. Preston, England: Harris Public Library, 1967. 
[Information Sciences Library REF Z1037 H3]

Harrison, David. Ancestral Subject Catalogue of Chapbook Themes
[http://davidharrison.org/ascintro.html]

Harvey, William. Scottish Chapbook Literature. Paisley: Alexander Gardner, 1903.
[ENR PR972 H342 1903] 

Hindley, Charles. The History of the Catnach Press, at Bewick-Upon-Tweed... Detroit: Singing Tree, 1969 (facsimile). 
[Information Sciences Library Z232 C36H3 1887b]

James, Louis. Fiction for the Working Man 1830-1850: a Study of the Literature for the Working Classes in Early Victorian England. London: Oxford University Press, 1963. 
[Hillman Library PR878 L3J27]

Justin G. Schiller. Chapbook Miscellany. New York: J.G. Schiller, [n.d.]
[ENR Z1037 J87]

Kent, Allen and Harold Lancour, eds. Encyclopedia of Library and Information Science. (New York: Marcel Dekker, 1970). "Chapbooks," by Roy B. Stokes. 
[Information Sciences Library REF Z1006 E58 v.4]

McKay, Barry. An Introduction to Chapbooks. Oldham: Incline Press, 2003

Moon, Marjorie. John Harris's Books for Youth, 1801-1843. Winchester, England: St. Paul's Bibliographies, 1987. 
[Information Sciences Library Z1037 M818 1987] 

Morris, John. 'Scottish ballads and chapbooks', IN Images & Texts: their production and distribution in the 18th and 19th centuries (ed. Issac, Peter and McKay, Barry). Winchester: St Paul's Bibliographies, 1997 [Information Sciences Library Z325 I28 1997]

Neuburg, Victor E. Chapbooks: a Guide to Reference Material on English, Scottish, and American Chapbook Literature of the Eighteenth and Nineteenth Centuries. 2nd ed. London: Woburn Books Limited, 1972. 
[Hillman Library Special Collection Z6514 P7 N4 1972]

Neuburg, Victor E. The Penny Histories: a Study of Chapbooks for Young Readers Over Two Centuries. London: Oxford University Press, 1968. 
[ENR PR972 N4]

Neuburg, Victor E. The Penny Histories: a Study of Chapbooks for Young Readers Over Two Centuries. New York: Harcourt, Brace & World, 1969. 
[ENR PR972 N4 1969]

Neuburg, Victor E.. Popular Literature : a history and guide from the beginning of printing to the year 1897.  Harmondsworth, Eng. ; New York : Penguin Books, 1977.     [Hillman Library PR149.P66 N4 1977b]

Neuburg, Victor E. "Chapbooks in America: Reconstructing the Popular Reading of Early America." Chapter.in Reading in America: Literature and Social History. Baltimore: John Hopkins University Press, 1989. 
[Information Sciences Library Z1003.2 R424 1989]

The Osbourne Collection of Early Children's Books, 1566-1910. A Catalogue. Vol. 1 Comp. by Judith St. John. Toronto: Toronto Public Library, 1958. 
[ENR Z1038 T6 A55]

Pearson, Edwin. Banbury Chap Books and Nursery Toy Book Literature. London: Arthur Reader, 1890. 
[ENR PR972 P35]

Rivers, Isabel, ed. Books and their Readers in Eighteenth-Century England. New York, NY: St. Martin's Press, 1982.
[Hillman Library PR442 B57 1982]

Roscoe, Sydney. James Lumsden & Son of Glasgow: Their Juvenile Books and Chapbooks. Pinner, Middlesex, England: Private Libraries Association, 1981. 
[ENR Z1037 R67 1981]

Rosenbach, A.S.W. Early American Children's Books. Portland, ME: Southworth Press, 1933. 
[ENR Z1037 A1 R8 1933] 

Shepard, Leslie. The History of Street Literature: the Story of Broadside Ballads, Chapbooks, Proclamations, News-Sheets, Election Bills, Tracts, Pamphlets, Cocks, Catchpennies, and Other Ephemera. Detroit, Michigan: Singing Tree Press, 1973.
[Information Sciences Library Z1029.3 S5]

Simons, John. Guy of Warwick and Other Chapbook Romances. Great Brittian: University of Exter Press, 1998.
[Information Sciences Library PR2115 G89 1998] 

Spufford, Margaret. Small Books and Pleasant Histories: Popular Fiction and its Readership in Seventeenth-Century England. Athens, Georgia: University of Georgia Press, 1981.
[Hillman Library PR972.S65 1982]

Stockham, Peter. Chapbook Riddles: Reprints of Six Rare and Charming Early Juveniles. New York: Dover Publications, 1974. 
[Information Sciences Library JUV PN6371.5.S8 1974]

Tanselle, G. Thomas. Guide to the Study of United States Imprints. 2 vols. Cambridge: Belknap, 1971. [Information Sciences Library REF Z1215 A2 T35]

Tebbel, John. A History of Book Publishing in the United States. v.1. New York: R.R. Bowker, 1972. 
[Information Sciences Library Z473 T42]

Thompson, Lawrence. "The Printing and Publishing Activities of the American Tract Society from 1825-1850." Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, 35 (1941): 81-114.

Thomson, Frances M. Newcastle Chapbooks in Newcastle upon Tyne University Library. Newcastle upon Tyne: Oriel Press Limited, 1969.
[Information Sciences Library REF Z2014 C4 T5]

Todd, William B. A Directory of Printers and Others in Allied Trades, London and Vincinity, 1800-1840. London: Printing Historical Society, 1972. 
[Information Sciences Library REF Z330 6.L6T6]

Tuer, Andrew White. Pages and Pictures from Forgotten Children's Books. New York: B. B.om, 1898.  [ENR Z1037.T92 1898]

Weiss, Harry B.A Book About Chapbooks. Hatboro, PA: Folklore Associates, 1969. Reprint of 1942 Limited Edition. 
[ENR qPN970 W4 1969]

Weiss, Harry Bischoff. A Catalogue of the American, English, and Foreign Chapbooks in the New York Public Library. New York: New York Public Library, 1935.
[ENR]

Weiss, Harry B. "Hannah More's Cheap Repository Tracts in America." Bulletin of The New York Public Library  50.7 (1946): 539-549, & v. 50(8) (1946), p. 634-641. 
[Information Sciences Library Periodical ; ENR PR973 W46 1946]

Weiss, Harry B. "Mahlon Day, Early New York Printer, Bookseller and Publisher of Children's Books."Bulletin of The New York Public Library 45 (Dec 1941): 1007-1021.

Weiss, Harry B. "The Printers and Publishers of Children's Books in New York City, 1698-1830." Bulletin of the New York Public Library. 52 (August 1948): 383-400. 

Welch, d'Alte A. A Bibliography of American Children's Books Printed Prior to 1821. Barre, MA: American Antiquarian Society and Barre Publishers, 1972.
[ENR Z1232 W44 1972] 

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