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State any three points of importance of penny chapbooks ?

(i) Chapbook is a term used to describe pocket size books that are sold by travelling peddlars called capmen. These became popular from the time of the sixteenth century print revolution.

(ii) In England, penny chapbooks were carried by petty peddlars known as chapmen and sold for a penny, so that even the poor could buy them.

(iii) In France, were the 'Biliotheque Bleue' , which were low - priced small books printed on poor quality paper and bound in cheap blue covers. Then these were the romances, printed on four to six pages, and the more substantial 'histories' which were stories about the past.

(iv) Books were of various sizes, serving many differnet purposes and interests.