For a penny in eighteenth century England you could buy a book on how best to broil wood pigeons or make birch tree wine, read an account of the last execution by burning in Britain or puzzle-your way through riddle rhymes. Complete with woodcut illustrations you could read popular versions of Dr Faustus, John Barleycorn, Aesop's Fables and the Canterbury Tales as well as nursery rhymes, ballads and romances, which proved the most popular, such as the chivalrous adventures of that most noble knight, Sir Bevis of Southampton. Chapbooks of the Eighteenth Century, contains over one hundred chapbooks that will illuminate and entertain the modern reader on a much neglected era in the literary history of a nation.
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