[Rarebooks] FS: McKay, An Introduction to Chapbooks, Incline Press, 2003

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Offered today: 

MCKAY, BARRY. 

_An Introduction to Chapbooks_. 

(Oldham, UK): Incline Press, (2003). 

4to. 10 x 6 1/2 inches. (40) pp. Half-title with a Bewick engraving of a
chapman, title page with large vignette printed within a typographic
border, 4 figures, 7 samples tipped-in (2 folding), notes; text clean,
unmarked. Quarter white cloth, blue paper over boards, the front cover
reproduces the title page in red and black, pocket mounted inside the
rear cover contains 4 samples of modern reproductions of chapbooks, 3
printed on the recto of a single slip of paper, 1 an 8-page chapbook
printed on a single sheet, un-opened, stitched and with a color
illustration on the front cover, all printed on hand-made paper that
replicates early nineteenth-century paper made at Griffen Mill, County
Mayo, Ireland; binding square and tight. SIGNED by the author and Graham
Moss and Kathy Whalen on the colophon. Also included are the original
4-page prospectus for this book, a printed invitation to a launch party
for the book at Eden District Council, Penrith Museum, December 12,
2003, and a handwritten note from Kathy Whalen to "Jack" on Incline
Press letterhead giving this copy with the publisher's compliments.
Fine. 

$ 95 

LIMITED EDITION of 250 copies, this is number 217, SIGNED by Barry
McKay, Graham Moss, and Kathy Whalen on the colophon. Printed with 12
point Bell types keyboarded by Peter Sanderson at the Whittington Press,
printed on Rivoli paper. Chapbooks are small publications of a popular
nature common from the seventeenth to the nineteenth centuries. They got
their name from the chapmen who hawked them door to door. MaKay focuses
on the role of chapbooks in disseminating a common culture through cheap
literature and presents a series of case studies concentrating on
printer-publishers working in the far North West of England. 

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