FOOTNOTES[15]In “The Child and His Book,” by Mrs. E. M. Field (London: Wells Gardner, Darton & Co., 1892), the reader is referred to chapters: Before the Norman Conquest; Books from the Conquest to Caxton; The Child in England, 1066–1640. Her researches form an invaluable contribution to the history of children’s books, furnishing sources for considerable speculation. Much is included of interest to the antiquarian only.[16]Thomas Newbery was the author.VideFugitive Tracts, 1875. Hazlitt and Huth.[17]As early as 1262, themacaronicstyle of delivering sermons was customary. The gradual substitution of the vernacular for Latin is dealt with in the introduction to the present author’s edition of “Everyman,” 1903, xxvii.[18]Chap= An abbreviation of Chapman, which seems to have come into vulgar use in the end of the 16th c.; but it is rare in books, even in the dramatists, before 1700. It was not recognised by Johnson. 1577BretonToyes IdleHead (Grosart). Those crusty chaps I cannot love.a.A buyer, purchaser, customer.Chap-book= f.chapin Chapman + Book. A modern name applied by book collectors and others to specimens of the popular literature which was formerly circulated by itinerant dealers or chapmen, consisting chiefly of small pamphlets of popular tales, etc. 1824DibdinLibr. Comp.It is a chap-book, printed in rather neat black letter. 1882J. AshtonChap-books, 18th CenturyinAthenæum2 Sept. 302/1. A great mass of chap-books.Chapman= [OE. Céapmann = OHG. Choufman (OHG., MHG. Koufman), Ger. Kaufmann.] A man whose business is buying and selling; a merchant, trader, dealer.Vide890K. ÆlfredBæda.Videfurther, A New English Dictionary. Murray, Oxford.[19]“The History of Tom Hickathrift” is regarded as distinctively English; its literary qualities were likened by Thackeray to Fielding.VideFraser’s Magazine.[20]The notice ran as follows: “Advertisement: There is now in the Press, and will suddenly be extant, a Second Impression ofThe New England Primer,enlarged, to which is added, moreDirections for Spelling; thePrayer of K. Edward the 6th, andVerses made by Mr. Rogers, the Martyr, left as a Legacy to his Children.Sold by Benjamin Harris, at theLondon Coffee-HouseinBoston.”[21]Three typical examples of later reprints are: The N. E. Primer, Walpole, N. H., I. Thomas & Co., 1814; The N. E. Primer Improved for the More Easy Attaining the True Reading of English. To which is added The Assembly of Divines and Episcopal Catechisms. N. Y., 1815; The N. E. Primer, or an Easy and Pleasant Guide to the Art of Reading, Mass. Sabbath School Soc., 1841.[22]Another writer ofContes des féeswas Mme. Jeanne Marie Le Prince de Beaumont (1711–1780), author of “Magasins des Enfans, des Adolescens et des Dames.”[23]The Original Mother Goose’s Melody, as first issued by John Newbery, of London, aboutA.D.1760. Reproduced infacsimilefrom the edition as reprinted by Isaiah Thomas, of Worcester, Mass., aboutA.D.1785. With Introductory Notes by William H. Whitmore. Albany, Munsell, 1889. [VideN. E. Hist. and Geneal. Regist., 1873, pp. 144, 311; Proceed. Am. Antiq. Soc., Oct., 1888, p. 406.][24]Lang says the termMother Gooseappears in Loret’s “La Muse Historique” (Lettre v., 11 Juin, 1650).Videalso Deulin, Charles—Les Contes de Ma Mère L’Oye, avant Perrault. Paris, 1878; and Halliwell, J. O.—Percy Society.[25]He was the author also of a “History of Animated Nature.”[26]A list of his publications is owned by the Bodleian Library, Oxford.[27]VideNotes and Queries, June, 1875, 5th series, iii, 441. Prof. Edward F. Rimbault.[28]Gentleman’s Magazine, 1826, Pt. ii, 467–69.[29]Nurse Truelove’s New Year’s Gift; or, the Book of Books for Children. Adorned with Cuts; and designed for a Present to every little Boy who would become a great Man, and ride upon a fine Horse; and to every little Girl, who would become a great Woman, and ride in a Governour’s Gilt Coach.[30]An interesting field of investigation: Early New England Printers. Mr. Welsh mentions a few in article referred to, p.60. A full list of Printers and Publishers (North and South) given in Evans’s American Bibliography.
[15]In “The Child and His Book,” by Mrs. E. M. Field (London: Wells Gardner, Darton & Co., 1892), the reader is referred to chapters: Before the Norman Conquest; Books from the Conquest to Caxton; The Child in England, 1066–1640. Her researches form an invaluable contribution to the history of children’s books, furnishing sources for considerable speculation. Much is included of interest to the antiquarian only.
[15]In “The Child and His Book,” by Mrs. E. M. Field (London: Wells Gardner, Darton & Co., 1892), the reader is referred to chapters: Before the Norman Conquest; Books from the Conquest to Caxton; The Child in England, 1066–1640. Her researches form an invaluable contribution to the history of children’s books, furnishing sources for considerable speculation. Much is included of interest to the antiquarian only.
[16]Thomas Newbery was the author.VideFugitive Tracts, 1875. Hazlitt and Huth.
[16]Thomas Newbery was the author.VideFugitive Tracts, 1875. Hazlitt and Huth.
[17]As early as 1262, themacaronicstyle of delivering sermons was customary. The gradual substitution of the vernacular for Latin is dealt with in the introduction to the present author’s edition of “Everyman,” 1903, xxvii.
[17]As early as 1262, themacaronicstyle of delivering sermons was customary. The gradual substitution of the vernacular for Latin is dealt with in the introduction to the present author’s edition of “Everyman,” 1903, xxvii.
[18]Chap= An abbreviation of Chapman, which seems to have come into vulgar use in the end of the 16th c.; but it is rare in books, even in the dramatists, before 1700. It was not recognised by Johnson. 1577BretonToyes IdleHead (Grosart). Those crusty chaps I cannot love.a.A buyer, purchaser, customer.Chap-book= f.chapin Chapman + Book. A modern name applied by book collectors and others to specimens of the popular literature which was formerly circulated by itinerant dealers or chapmen, consisting chiefly of small pamphlets of popular tales, etc. 1824DibdinLibr. Comp.It is a chap-book, printed in rather neat black letter. 1882J. AshtonChap-books, 18th CenturyinAthenæum2 Sept. 302/1. A great mass of chap-books.Chapman= [OE. Céapmann = OHG. Choufman (OHG., MHG. Koufman), Ger. Kaufmann.] A man whose business is buying and selling; a merchant, trader, dealer.Vide890K. ÆlfredBæda.Videfurther, A New English Dictionary. Murray, Oxford.
[18]Chap= An abbreviation of Chapman, which seems to have come into vulgar use in the end of the 16th c.; but it is rare in books, even in the dramatists, before 1700. It was not recognised by Johnson. 1577BretonToyes IdleHead (Grosart). Those crusty chaps I cannot love.a.A buyer, purchaser, customer.
Chap-book= f.chapin Chapman + Book. A modern name applied by book collectors and others to specimens of the popular literature which was formerly circulated by itinerant dealers or chapmen, consisting chiefly of small pamphlets of popular tales, etc. 1824DibdinLibr. Comp.It is a chap-book, printed in rather neat black letter. 1882J. AshtonChap-books, 18th CenturyinAthenæum2 Sept. 302/1. A great mass of chap-books.
Chapman= [OE. Céapmann = OHG. Choufman (OHG., MHG. Koufman), Ger. Kaufmann.] A man whose business is buying and selling; a merchant, trader, dealer.Vide890K. ÆlfredBæda.Videfurther, A New English Dictionary. Murray, Oxford.
[19]“The History of Tom Hickathrift” is regarded as distinctively English; its literary qualities were likened by Thackeray to Fielding.VideFraser’s Magazine.
[19]“The History of Tom Hickathrift” is regarded as distinctively English; its literary qualities were likened by Thackeray to Fielding.VideFraser’s Magazine.
[20]The notice ran as follows: “Advertisement: There is now in the Press, and will suddenly be extant, a Second Impression ofThe New England Primer,enlarged, to which is added, moreDirections for Spelling; thePrayer of K. Edward the 6th, andVerses made by Mr. Rogers, the Martyr, left as a Legacy to his Children.Sold by Benjamin Harris, at theLondon Coffee-HouseinBoston.”
[20]The notice ran as follows: “Advertisement: There is now in the Press, and will suddenly be extant, a Second Impression ofThe New England Primer,enlarged, to which is added, moreDirections for Spelling; thePrayer of K. Edward the 6th, andVerses made by Mr. Rogers, the Martyr, left as a Legacy to his Children.Sold by Benjamin Harris, at theLondon Coffee-HouseinBoston.”
[21]Three typical examples of later reprints are: The N. E. Primer, Walpole, N. H., I. Thomas & Co., 1814; The N. E. Primer Improved for the More Easy Attaining the True Reading of English. To which is added The Assembly of Divines and Episcopal Catechisms. N. Y., 1815; The N. E. Primer, or an Easy and Pleasant Guide to the Art of Reading, Mass. Sabbath School Soc., 1841.
[21]Three typical examples of later reprints are: The N. E. Primer, Walpole, N. H., I. Thomas & Co., 1814; The N. E. Primer Improved for the More Easy Attaining the True Reading of English. To which is added The Assembly of Divines and Episcopal Catechisms. N. Y., 1815; The N. E. Primer, or an Easy and Pleasant Guide to the Art of Reading, Mass. Sabbath School Soc., 1841.
[22]Another writer ofContes des féeswas Mme. Jeanne Marie Le Prince de Beaumont (1711–1780), author of “Magasins des Enfans, des Adolescens et des Dames.”
[22]Another writer ofContes des féeswas Mme. Jeanne Marie Le Prince de Beaumont (1711–1780), author of “Magasins des Enfans, des Adolescens et des Dames.”
[23]The Original Mother Goose’s Melody, as first issued by John Newbery, of London, aboutA.D.1760. Reproduced infacsimilefrom the edition as reprinted by Isaiah Thomas, of Worcester, Mass., aboutA.D.1785. With Introductory Notes by William H. Whitmore. Albany, Munsell, 1889. [VideN. E. Hist. and Geneal. Regist., 1873, pp. 144, 311; Proceed. Am. Antiq. Soc., Oct., 1888, p. 406.]
[23]The Original Mother Goose’s Melody, as first issued by John Newbery, of London, aboutA.D.1760. Reproduced infacsimilefrom the edition as reprinted by Isaiah Thomas, of Worcester, Mass., aboutA.D.1785. With Introductory Notes by William H. Whitmore. Albany, Munsell, 1889. [VideN. E. Hist. and Geneal. Regist., 1873, pp. 144, 311; Proceed. Am. Antiq. Soc., Oct., 1888, p. 406.]
[24]Lang says the termMother Gooseappears in Loret’s “La Muse Historique” (Lettre v., 11 Juin, 1650).Videalso Deulin, Charles—Les Contes de Ma Mère L’Oye, avant Perrault. Paris, 1878; and Halliwell, J. O.—Percy Society.
[24]Lang says the termMother Gooseappears in Loret’s “La Muse Historique” (Lettre v., 11 Juin, 1650).Videalso Deulin, Charles—Les Contes de Ma Mère L’Oye, avant Perrault. Paris, 1878; and Halliwell, J. O.—Percy Society.
[25]He was the author also of a “History of Animated Nature.”
[25]He was the author also of a “History of Animated Nature.”
[26]A list of his publications is owned by the Bodleian Library, Oxford.
[26]A list of his publications is owned by the Bodleian Library, Oxford.
[27]VideNotes and Queries, June, 1875, 5th series, iii, 441. Prof. Edward F. Rimbault.
[27]VideNotes and Queries, June, 1875, 5th series, iii, 441. Prof. Edward F. Rimbault.
[28]Gentleman’s Magazine, 1826, Pt. ii, 467–69.
[28]Gentleman’s Magazine, 1826, Pt. ii, 467–69.
[29]Nurse Truelove’s New Year’s Gift; or, the Book of Books for Children. Adorned with Cuts; and designed for a Present to every little Boy who would become a great Man, and ride upon a fine Horse; and to every little Girl, who would become a great Woman, and ride in a Governour’s Gilt Coach.
[29]Nurse Truelove’s New Year’s Gift; or, the Book of Books for Children. Adorned with Cuts; and designed for a Present to every little Boy who would become a great Man, and ride upon a fine Horse; and to every little Girl, who would become a great Woman, and ride in a Governour’s Gilt Coach.
[30]An interesting field of investigation: Early New England Printers. Mr. Welsh mentions a few in article referred to, p.60. A full list of Printers and Publishers (North and South) given in Evans’s American Bibliography.
[30]An interesting field of investigation: Early New England Printers. Mr. Welsh mentions a few in article referred to, p.60. A full list of Printers and Publishers (North and South) given in Evans’s American Bibliography.