Chapbooks

• Chapbook Collection: McGill Library – Over 900 British and American chapbooks published in the 18th and 19th centuries.
• Chapbooks: Ball State University Digital Media Repository – 173 chapbooks on subjects ranging from moral instruction to the ABCs to advertisements for patent medicines and soap
• Scottish Chapbooks – The University of Guelph’s collection of Scottish Chapbooks. Chapbooks were pamphlets of eight to twenty-four pages that were created and sold in the 18th and 19th centuries. They featured popular stories of romance, travel, comedy, politics, fairy tales, religion, social customs, and history.
• Spanish Chapbooks: Cambridge Digital Library – Usually referred to in English as chap-books, and in Spanish assueltos, orpliegos sueltos(loose leaves or folded loose leaves), these predecessors of the yellow press provide a fascinating bird’s eye view of popular culture from the eighteenth century onwards.
• Street Literature About Napoleon’s Wars: National Library of Scotland – Chapbooks about events from the 1790s to the Battle of Waterloo, mostly ballads about military conflicts with Napoleon Bonaparte