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	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Prophecies > Life and prophecies of Mr. Alex. Peden [104186311] Printer: McNairn, Joseph, active 1820-1837 Probable date printed: 1820-1837
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Prophecies > History of Jock Haxton [104186313] Printer: McNairn, Joseph, active 1820-1837 Probable date printed: 1820-1837
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Prophecies > History of Whittington [104186449] Printer: Randall, C. (Charles), 1749-1812 Date printed: 1801
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Prophecies > Prophecies of Thomas Rymer [104186519] Author: Boyd, Allan Printer: Johnston, Thomas (Printer) Date printed: 1798
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Prophecies > History of Whittington [104186522] Printer: Randall, C. (Charles), 1749-1812 Date printed: 1801
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Prophecies > Explication of the prophecies of Thomas Rymer [104186559] Probable date printed: 1800
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Prophecies > Visions, discoveries and warnings of the dreadful and terrible judgements upon Scotland, England and Ireland [104186560] Date printed: 1799
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Prophecies > Dreamer's oracle, or, A new and universal explanation of all kinds of dreams and visions of the night [104186642] Probable date printed: 1813-1820
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Prophecies > Strange and wonderful history and prophecies of Mother Shipton [104186660] Probable date printed: 1813-1820
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Prophecies > Fashionable dreamer, or, Dreams realized [104186827] Printer: Macnie, William Date printed: 1828
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Prophecies > Prophecies of Thomas the Rhymer [104186846] Printer: Macnie, William Date printed: 1828
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Prophecies > Prophecies of Thomas the Rhymer [104186912] Printer: J. Fraser & Co. Probable date printed: 1816-1820
	Chapbooks printed in Scotland > Prophecies > Prophecies of Thomas Rymer [104187037] Author: Boyd, Allan Printer: Johnston, Thomas (Printer) Date printed: 1798

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Prophecies
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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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