Small Books for the Common Man: A Descriptive Bibliography

Perhaps the first ironic detail to note about Small Books for the Common Man is the sheer bulk of this bibliography, containing as it does over 800 individual entries of nineteenth century chapbooks from the National Art Library's collection. However, the book itself is a delight to behold and vastly informative on many levels, providing everything from a definition of the term for the uninitiated in paper ephemera (like myself) to appendices containing lists of nineteenth century printers and tables of paper sizes and layouts. Each sample entry – grouped alphabetically by the place of publication and then by publisher...