- CA MRUASC C0012-S1
- Series
- 1796-1864
Part of Rare book collection
Series contains chapbooks, which are small inexpensive pamphlet-like booklets that were popular from the seventeenth to nineteenth centuries. Chapbooks typically consisted of current events, news, nursery rhymes, riddles, jokes, songs, and occasionally longer stories such as adventure tales, coming-of-age narratives, fairy tales, or traditional folk tales. While they were not originally produced for, or marketed to children, chapbooks became a popular form of children's literature and helped to usher in literature created specifically for children. Series contains moralizing chapbooks produced by the Cheap Repository for Religious and Moral Tracts, collections of fairy tales, nursey rhymes, and ballads.