Curiosities and wonders

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	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Curiosities and wonders > Proposals for original publications [104184181] Printer: David Macarter & Co. Date printed: 1817-1818
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Curiosities and wonders > Thrummy cap, a tale [104184196] Author: Burness, John, 1771-1826 Date published: 1839
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Curiosities and wonders > Little book of knowledge, or, The country man's choice companion [104184217] Date printed: 1799
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Curiosities and wonders > Account of a dreadful hurricane which happened in the island of Jamaica, in the month of October, 1780 [104184219] Printer: Miller, George, 1771- Date printed: 1799
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Curiosities and wonders > Collection of notable things worth knowing [104184274] Printer: Miller, John, 1780-1852 Date printed: 1828
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Curiosities and wonders > Awful phenomena of nature [104184275] Date printed: 1828
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Curiosities and wonders > Awful phenomena of nature -- earthquakes [104184293] Printer: Miller, John, 1780-1852 Date printed: 1826
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Curiosities and wonders > Awful phenomena of nature -- burning mountains [104184294] Printer: Miller, John, 1780-1852 Date printed: 1826
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Curiosities and wonders > Monthly scrap book, for January [104184299] Printer: Miller, John, 1780-1852 Date published: 1832
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Curiosities and wonders > History of Jack and the giants [104184360] Printer: Morren, John, active 1784-1822 Probable date printed: 1800
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Curiosities and wonders > Account of a most surprising savage girl, who was caught wild in the woods of Champagne, a province in France [104184364] Printer: Morren, John, active 1784-1822 Probable date printed: 1800
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Curiosities and wonders > Partridge and Flamstead's new and well experienced fortune book [104184365] Printer: Morren, John, active 1784-1822 Probable date printed: 1800
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Curiosities and wonders > Ancient and modern history of the Russian Empire [104184369] Printer: Morren, John, active 1784-1822 Date printed: 1813
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Curiosities and wonders > Sleeping beauty in the wood [104184372] Printer: Morren, John, active 1784-1822 Probable date printed: 1800
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Curiosities and wonders > Fairy tales [104184375] Printer: Morren, John, active 1784-1822 Probable date printed: 1800
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Curiosities and wonders > Age and life of man, or, A short description of the natur [sic], rise, and fall, according to the twelve months of the year [104184401] Printer: Morren, John, active 1784-1822 Probable date printed: 1800
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Curiosities and wonders > Age and life of man, or, A short description of the nture [sic], rise, and fall, according to the 12 months of the year [104184426] Printer: Morren, John, active 1784-1822 Probable date printed: 1800
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Curiosities and wonders > Curious history on several occasions [104184535] Author: Claudero, approximately 1730-approximately 1790 Probable date printed: 1790
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Curiosities and wonders > Grand history on curious subjects, both entertaining and pleasant [104184541] Date printed: 1793
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Curiosities and wonders > Life and death of Tom Thumb, the little giant [104184546] Probable date printed: 1720
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Curiosities and wonders > History of Jack and the giants [104184560] Date printed: 1789
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Curiosities and wonders > History of Jack and the giants [104184561] Date printed: 1795
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Curiosities and wonders > Fairy tales [104184586] Printer: Morren, John, active 1784-1822 Probable date printed: 1800
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Curiosities and wonders > Magic pill, or, Davie and Bess [104184755] Printer: Menzies, Robert (Printer of Edinburgh) Probable date printed: 1810-1836
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Curiosities and wonders > True fortune teller [104184766] Printer: Sanderson, John (Printer) Date printed: 1870
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Curiosities and wonders > Spaewife, or, universal fortune teller [104184768] Date printed: 1870
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Curiosities and wonders > History of the wicked life and horrid death of Dr. John Faustus [104184857] Printer: Johnston, Thomas (Printer) Date printed: 1816
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Curiosities and wonders > Entertaining story-teller [104184858] Printer: Johnston, Thomas (Printer) Date printed: 1801
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Curiosities and wonders > Hocus pocus, or, The whole art of legerdemain in perfection [104184941] Printer: Johnston, Thomas (Printer) Probable date printed: 1810-1825
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Curiosities and wonders > Spaewife , or, Universal fortune-teller [104184948] Probable date printed: 1810-1825
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Curiosities and wonders > History of Jack and the giants [104184970] Date printed: 1787
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Curiosities and wonders > History of Thomas Hickathrift [104185056] Probable date printed: 1840-1860
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Curiosities and wonders > Jack the giant-killer [104185058] Probable date printed: 1840-1860
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Curiosities and wonders > Stories of Prince Lupin [104185068] Probable date printed: 1840-1850
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Curiosities and wonders > Daniel O'Rourke's wonderful voyage to the moon [104185112] Probable date printed: 1850-1860
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Curiosities and wonders > Aladdin, or, The wonderful lamp [104185165] Date printed: 1850
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Curiosities and wonders > Storys of Prince Lupin [104185167] Author: Aulnoy, Madame d’ (Marie-Catherine), 1650 or 1651-1705 Probable date printed: 1840-1850
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Curiosities and wonders > History of Cinderella, or, The little glass slipper [104185169] Probable date printed: 1840-1850
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Curiosities and wonders > Vermin killer [104185177] Probable date printed: 1840-1850
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Curiosities and wonders > Daniel O'Rourke's wonderful voyage to the moon [104185193] Probable date printed: 1840-1850
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Curiosities and wonders > Sleeping beauty of the wood [104185195] Probable date printed: 1840-1850
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Curiosities and wonders > Sleeping beauty of the wood [104185202] Probable date printed: 1840-1850
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Curiosities and wonders > History of Jack the giant killer [104185206] Probable date printed: 1840-1850
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Curiosities and wonders > History of Thomas Hickathrift [104185221] Probable date printed: 1840-1850
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Curiosities and wonders > Spaewife, or, Universal fortune-teller [104185222] Probable date printed: 1840-1850
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Curiosities and wonders > New hocus pocus [104185232] Probable date printed: 1840-1850
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Curiosities and wonders > Account of a most surprizing savage girl [104185303] Date printed: 1798
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Curiosities and wonders > Wonderful and most astonishing account of Alexander Libanus [104185307] Date printed: 1789
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Curiosities and wonders > Account of several remarkable earthquakes which have happened in various quarters of the world [104185312] Printer: J. & M. Robertson Date printed: 1799
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Curiosities and wonders > Age and life of man, or, A short description of the nature, rise, and fall, according to the twelve months of the year [104185334] Date printed: 1805

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Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Curiosities and wonders

Curiosities and wonders
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Chapbooks printed in Scotland
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Description	Over 3,000 chapbooks published in Scotland in the 18th and 19th centuries. Subjects include courtship, humour, occupations, fairs, apparitions, war, politics, crime, executions, Jacobites, transvestites, and freemasonry. Chapbooks are small booklets of 8, 12, 16 and 24 pages, often illustrated with crude woodcuts. Produced cheaply and sold by peddlars on the streets, they formed the staple reading material of the common people, along with broadsides.
Additional NLS resources:	Street literature about Napoleon's wars Collection of 78 Scottish chapbooks recounting events from the late 1790s to the Battle of Waterloo in 1815. Cheap print booklets mostly containing ballads about the military conflicts. Also give insights into contemporary views of Napoleon Bonaparte, Josephine de Beauharnais, Horatio Nelson and the Duke of Wellington. A brief introduction to chapbooks A one-page introduction to chapbooks, with information about the 4,000 held in our Rare Book collections. Broadsides website, 'The word on the street' Discover early news stories and ballads that informed and entertained Scots between 1650 and 1910 as you browse around 1,800 broadsides.

Person / organisation:	Cumming, John (Publisher) [Publisher]
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