Ashton, John. Chap-books of the Eighteenth Century. With facsimiles, notes, and introduction. London: Chatto and Windus, 1882
Brown cloth with front cover and spine stamped in gilt and black., xvi, 486 pp. With 250 woodcut illustrations from 103 chap-books. With prefatory material and an alphabetical list of chap-books published in Aldermary and Bow Churchyards
Light shelfwear, old ink signature, edges slightly foxed. A very good, bright copy. , An interesting study by the author of Humour, Wit, & Satire of the Seventeenth Century, Social Life in the Reign of Queen Anne, and the Leadenhall Press publication, A History of English Lotteries.
$US175
This item is listed on Bibliopoly by Michael R. Thompson Bookseller; click here for further details.