An Introduction to Chapbooks. by INCLINE PRESS. McKAY, Barry

FIRST EDITION limited to 250 numbered copies, signed by the author; pp.38 + colophon; six woodcut illustrations, seven tipped in facsimiles and 8pp. facsimile chapbook with hand-coloured woodcut and two other title-page facsimiles in pocket at end; printed in 12pt Bell on Rivoli paper; hand-bound in cloth-backed printed blue boards. McKay's essay focuses on the role of chapbooks in disseminating a common culture through cheap literature, followed by a series of case studies of printers working in Whitehaven, Carlisle and Penrith around the turn of the 18th century. An entertaining account sympathetically realized by Graham Moss & Kathy Whalen.