chap-book

Fate, a chap-book which appeared some years ago, was Geomancy in its simplest and most ignorant shape.

The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

Dr. Faustus, first published anonymously in 1587 as a “chap-book, ” was immediately popular and translated into English.

1558-64 2001

Thackeray this chap-book tale was written by Fielding.

A Study of Fairy Tales Laura F. Kready

[35] As Mr. Gardner notes, a chap-book form of "Aladdin" exists in

Filipino Popular Tales Dean Spruill Fansler

This chap-book is very much finer in language than many of the others in

A Study of Fairy Tales Laura F. Kready

It formed the material of a chap-book which was regularly on sale at the "Johnnie-a'-thing" shops in the middle of last century, though now, I suppose, a copy could scarcely be had for love or money.

Children's Rhymes, Children's Games, Children's Songs, Children's Stories A Book for Bairns and Big Folk Robert Ford

In addition to the three popular tales of the "Clever Lass" cycle, two chap-book versions of the story, containing incidents lacking in the folk-tales, may be mentioned here: --

Filipino Popular Tales Dean Spruill Fansler

The _Historia de Piramo e Tisbe_ was very early in print in Italy, and continued to be popular in chap-book form until the nineteenth century at least.

The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream' Compiled by Frank Sidgwick

I have at present no copy of this chap-book; but the work may safely be dated 1902-05, as those were the years in which Molteni published.

Filipino Popular Tales Dean Spruill Fansler

There is nothing to prevent the supposition that Shakespeare was acquainted from boyhood with Chaucer's story -- either in Chaucerian form or possibly in the shape of a chap-book -- and that he constructed a first draft of _The Two Noble Kinsmen_ quite early in his career as a playwright, subsequently laying it aside as unsatisfactory, and, in his declining years, collaborating with another or others to produce the play on that theme.

The Sources and Analogues of 'A Midsummer-night's Dream' Compiled by Frank Sidgwick