Curiosities and wonders
Ancient and modern history of the Russian Empire
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| Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Curiosities and wonders > Ancient and modern history of the Russian Empire > (1) |
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| Permanent URL | https://digital.nls.uk/104184369 |
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| Description | Giving an account of its extent, population, cities, trade and commerce, with a description of the artificial and natural curisities in the vast Empire ; together with the customs and manners of the Russians and Cossacks. Likewise, giving an account of Bonaparte's eruption into that Empire in 1812 with an army of above 450 000 men which caused the burning and destroying of that ancient and imperial city of Moscow, with the lives of more than half a million people. |
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| Shelfmark | L.C.2804(17) |
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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. |
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