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.