[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. _Vide_ Fugitive Tracts, 1875.
Hazlitt and Huth.
[17] As early as 1262, the _macaronic_ style 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. 1577
BRETON _Toyes Idle_ Head (Grosart). Those crusty chaps I cannot love.
_a._ A buyer, purchaser, customer.
CHAP-BOOK = f. _chap_ in 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. 1824 DIBDIN _Libr. Comp._ It
is a chap-book, printed in rather neat black letter. 1882 J. ASHTON
_Chap-books, 18th Century_ in _Athenæum_ 2 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. _Vide_ 890 K. ÆLFRED _Bæda_. _Vide_ further, 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.
_Vide_ _Fraser’s Magazine._
[20] The notice ran as follows: “Advertisement: There is now in the
Press, and will suddenly be extant, a Second Impression of _The New
England Primer_, _enlarged_, to which is added, more _Directions for
Spelling_; the _Prayer of K. Edward the 6th_, and _Verses made by
Mr. Rogers, the Martyr, left as a Legacy to his Children_. _Sold by
Benjamin Harris_, at the _London Coffee-House_ in _Boston_.”
[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 of _Contes des fées_ was 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, about A.D. 1760. Reproduced in _facsimile_ from the
edition as reprinted by Isaiah Thomas, of Worcester, Mass., about A.D.
1785. With Introductory Notes by William H. Whitmore. Albany, Munsell,
1889. [_Vide_ N. E. Hist. and Geneal. Regist., 1873, pp. 144, 311;
Proceed. Am. Antiq. Soc., Oct., 1888, p. 406.]
[24] Lang says the term _Mother Goose_ appears in Loret’s “La
Muse Historique” (Lettre v., 11 Juin, 1650). _Vide_ also 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] _Vide_ _Notes 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.