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- Primary term
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chapbook
- URI
- https://nomenclature.info/nom/14978 (opens semantic view)
- Definition
- Small booklet or pamphlet, usually fewer than 40 pages and of limited-quantity print run, consisting of a cover and pages often with quality illustrations. Formerly peddled by chapmen and cheaply printed, used to distribute such texts as popular tales, treatises, ballads, poems or nursery rhymes. Used by contemporary small and independent literary presses to showcase new authors and collector’s pieces from established writers.
- Definition source(s)
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- American Association for State and Local History (AASLH), and Canadian Heritage Information Network / Réseau canadien d’information sur le patrimoine. 2018. “Nomenclature for Museum Cataloging / Nomenclature pour le catalogage des objets de musée.” September 1, 2018. https://www.nomenclature.info/.
- English
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- Term (International)
- chapbook
- French
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- Term (International)
- livre de colportage
- Term gender (International)
- masculine
- Note(s)
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- May also use "Book" or "Pamphlet."
- Date created
- 2020-01-24
- Date updated
- 2024-04-11
- Bibliographic citation(s)
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- “Littérature de colportage.” n.d. Portail de l’école Athénée royal Gatti de Gamond. Accessed August 1, 2019. http://www.ecoles.cfwb.be/argattidegamond/Contes/Chaperon/Colportage.htm.
- Hagen, Anette, Dr. n.d. “Chapbooks: the poor person’s reading material.” Europeana Blog (blog). Accessed September 27, 2019. https://blog.europeana.eu/2019/08/chapbooks-the-poor-persons-reading-material/.
- Schuwer, Philippe. n.d. “Livre de colportage.” Grand dictionnaire terminologique. Accessed August 1, 2019. http://www.granddictionnaire.com/ficheOqlf.aspx?Id_Fiche=10453827.
- The J. Paul Getty Trust. n.d. “chapbooks.” Art and Architecture Thesaurus Online. Accessed August 1, 2019. http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300152367.
- Université Laval. n.d. “Littérature de colportage.” In Répertoire de vedettes-matière. Université Laval. Accessed August 1, 2019.
- Wikipedia. n.d. “Chapbook.” Wikipedia. Accessed August 1, 2019. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chapbook.
- Wikipedia. n.d. “Littérature de colportage.” Wikipédia. Accessed August 1, 2019. https://fr.wikipedia.org/wiki/Litt%C3%A9rature_de_colportage.
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