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6. Chapmen’s Books Printed for Henry Woodgate and Samuel Brooks (1757–61)

  • David Atkinson (author)
Chapter of: Cheap Print and Street Literature of the Long Eighteenth Century(pp. 137–164)

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Title6. Chapmen’s Books Printed for Henry Woodgate and Samuel Brooks (1757–61)
ContributorDavid Atkinson (author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.11647/obp.0347.06
Landing pagehttps://www.openbookpublishers.com/books/10.11647/obp.0347/chapters/10.11647/obp.0347.06
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
CopyrightDavid Atkinson
PublisherOpen Book Publishers
Published on2023-09-04
Long abstractThis chapter considers a series of ‘Chapmen’s Books, Printed for Henry Woodgate and Samuel Brooks, at the Golden Ball, in Paternoster Row’ in the 1750s/60s, listed in printed catalogues appended to several of the firm’s publications. These chapmen’s books were typically upwards of a hundred pages in extent, printed on several sheets, and priced at one shilling. That was twelve times the price of a broadside or cheap chapbook, and so these publications might be expected to have been aimed at a rather different market from that usually associated with the itinerant book trade. Cautiously, the chapter concludes that it is plausible to think of booksellers like Woodgate and Brooks reflecting the growth of the market for print, and to think of the itinerant book trade as being, or having become,more diverse than the conventional picture of the petty chapman selling ballads and chapbooks for a penny or so might allow.
Page rangepp. 137–164
Print length28 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)
Contributors

David Atkinson

(author)
Honorary Research Fellow at the Elphinstone Institute at University of Aberdeen

David Atkinson is the author of The English Traditional Ballad (2002), The Anglo-Scottish Ballad and its Imaginary Contexts (2014), and The Ballad and its Pasts: Literary Histories and the Play of Memory (2018). With Steve Roud he has co-edited Street Ballads in Nineteenth-Century Britain, Ireland, and North America (2014), Street Literature of the Long Nineteenth Century (2017), Cheap Print and the People: European Perspectives on Popular Literature (2019), Street Literature and the Circulation of Songs (2019), and Printers, Pedlars, Sailors, Nuns: Aspects of Street Literature (2020). He has published articles on cheap print in The Library, Publishing History, Papers of the Bibliographical Society of America, and the Journal of the Edinburgh Bibliographical Society. He is the editor of Folk Music Journal, Honorary Research Fellow at the Elphinstone Institute, University of Aberdeen, and Executive Secretary of the Kommission für Volksdichtung (Ballad Commission).

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  1. An Address to His Majesty upon the Present Crisis (London: printed for H. Woodgate and S. Brooks, in Paternoster Row, 1757) [ESTC T86697]. 44 pp. 8o.
  2. Academy of Compliments
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  4. An Authentick and Complete History of Witches and Apparitions (London: printed for H. Woodgate and S. Brooks, at the Golden Ball, in Paternoster Row, 1759) [ESTC T188854]. 116 pp. 12o.
  5. A Cabinet Council; or, Secret History of Lewis XIV (London: printed for H. Woodgate and S. Brooke [sic], at the Golden Ball, in Paternoster Row, 1757), price 3s. [ESTC T127892]. 214 pp. 12o.
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  11. The Father of his Country; or, The History of the Life and Glorious Exploits of Peter the Great, Czar of Muscovy (printed for H. Woodgate and S. Brooks, at the Golden Ball, in Paternoster Row, 1760) [ESTC T145418]. 144 pp. 12o. By W. H. Dilworth.
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  14. Fortune’s Fickle Distribution, in Three Parts, containing first, The Life and Death of Moll Flanders […] The Life of Jane Hackabout, her Governess […] The Life of James Mac-Faul, Moll Flanders’s Lancashire Husband […] (London: printed for Henry Woodgate and Samuel Broors [sic], at the Golden Ball, in Paternoster Row, 1759), price 1s. [ESTC N18614]. 120 pp. 12o.
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  16. The Gentleman and Lady’s Military Palladium, for the Year of our Lord 1759 (printed for H. Woodgate and S. Brooks, in Paternoster Row, 1759) [ESTC T61124]. 80 pp. 8o.
  17. The Happy Orphans, an Authentic History of Persons in High Life, 2 vols (London: printed for H. Woodgate and S. Brooks, at the Golden Ball, in Paternoster Row, 1759) [ESTC N32838]. 2 vols. 12o.
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  20. The History of the Present War, between France and Great-Britain, to the Conclusion of the Year 1759 (London: printed for Henry Woodgate and Samuel Brooks, at the Golden Ball, in Paternoster Row, 1760) [ESTC N8194]. 168 pp. 12o. By W. H. Dilworth.
  21. The Honour of Chivalry; or, The Famous and Delectable History of Don Bellianis of Greece (London: printed for H. Woodgate and S. Brooks, at the Golden Ball, in Paternoster Row), price 1s. [ESTC T184982]. 120 pp. 12o.
  22. Injured Innocence, a Narrative Founded on Fact (London: printed for Henry Woodgate and Samuel Brooks, at the Golden Ball, in Paternoster Row, 1759), price 1s. [ESTC N9470]. 120 pp. 12o.
  23. The Ladies Delight; or, Cook-Maids Best Instructor (London: printed for Henry Woodgate and Samuel Brooks, at the Golden Ball, in Paternoster Row, 1759), price 1s. [ESTC N506805]. 120 pp. 12o.
  24. The Life and Heroic Actions of Balbe Berton, Chevalier de Grillon, 2 vols (London: printed for H. Woodgate and S. Brooks, at the Golden Ball, in Paternoster Row) [ESTC T130968]. 2 vols. 12o.
  25.  — , 2nd edn, 2 vols (London: printed for H. Woodgate and S. Brooks, at the Golden Ball, in Paternoster Row) [ESTC N33541]. 2 vols. 12o.
  26. The Life of Alexander Pope, Esq. (London: printed for H. Woodgate and S. Brooks, in Paternoster Row, 1760) [ESTC T84010]. 156 pp. 12o. By W. H. Dilworth.
  27. The Life of Dr. Jonathan Swift, Dean of St. Patrick’s, Dublin (London: printed for H. Woodgate and S. Brooks, in Paternoster Row, 1760) [ESTC T84013]. 146 pp. 12o. By W. H. Dilworth.
  28. The Life of Frederick III, King of Prussia (London: printed for Henry Woodgate and Samuel Brooks, at the Golden Ball, in Paternoster Row, 1759), price 1s. [ESTC T178539]. 120 pp. 12o. [By W. H. Dilworth?]
  29. The Life of Oliver Cromwell (London: printed for H. Woodgate and S. Brooks, at the Golden Ball, in Paternoster Row, 1760) [ESTC T134196]. 168 pp. 12o. [By W. H. Dilworth?]
  30. The Lives and Adventures of the Most Notorious Highway-waymen [sic], Street Robbers and Murderers (London: printed for H. Woodgate and S. Brooks, at the Golden Ball, in Paternoster Row, 1759) [ESTC T105166]. 120 pp. 12o.
  31. The London, Oxford, Cambridge, Coffee-House and England’s Jests (London: printed for Henry Woodgate and Samuel Brooks, at the Golden Ball, in Paternoster Row), price 9d. [ESTC T171685]. 120 pp. 12o.
  32. The Most Pleasing and Delightful History of Reynard the Fox, and Reynardine his Son […] to which is added, The History of Cawwood the Rook; or, The Assembly of Birds, 6th edn (London: printed for H. Woodgate and S. Brooks, at the Golden Ball, in Paternoster Row, 1758) [ESTC N35373]. 146 pp. 12o.
  33. The Navy Surgeon; or, Practical System of Surgery, with a Dissertation on Cold and Hot Mineral Springs, and Physical Observations on the Coast of Guiney (London: printed for Henry Woodgate and Samuel Brooks, at the Golden Ball, in Paternoster Row, 1758) [ESTC N5253]. 432 pp. 8o.
  34. John Burton, A New and Complete System of Midwifry, Theoretical and Practical, 2nd edn (London: printed for Henry Woodgate and Samuel Brooks, at the Golden Ball, in Paternoster Row, 1758) [ESTC N4953]. 440 pp. 8o.
  35. Observations on the Account Given of the Catalogue of the Royal and Noble Authors of England, &c. in Article Sixth of the Critical Review, No. 35. for December, 1758 (London: sold by H. Woodgate and S. Brooks, at the Golden Ball, in Paternoster Row, 1759) [ESTC T41763]. 40 pp. 8o.
  36. The Pleasant and Delightful History of Dorastus, Prince of Sicily, and Fawnia, Only Daughter and Heir to Pandosto, King of Bohemia (London: printed for Henry Woodgate and Samuel Brookes, at the Golden Ball, in Paternoster Row) [ESTC T67323]. 120 pp. 12o.
  37. The Unfortunate Lovers: The History of Argalus and Parthenia (London: printed for Henry Woodgate and Samuel Brooks, at the Golden Ball, in Paternoster Row) [ESTC T128764]. 120 pp. 12o.
  38. The Visions of Dom Francisco de Quevedo Villegas, Knight of the Order of St. James, 6th edn (London: printed for H. Woodgate, and S. Brooks, at the Golden Ball, in Paternoster Row, 1759), price 1s. [ESTC N63187]. 132 pp. 12o.
  39. The Vocal Companion; or, Songster’s Delight, being a Choice Collection of All the Celebrated New Songs Sung at the Public Gardens and Theatres (London: printed for H. Woodgate and S. Brooks, at the Golden Ball, Paternoster Row, 1759), price 1s. [ESTC T180635]. 132 pp. 12o.
  40. The Wars of the Jews, 5th edn (London: printed for H. Woodgate and S. Brooks, at the Golden Ball, in Paternoster Row, 1759), price 1s. [ESTC N509092]. 118+ pp. (imperfect). 12o.
  41. The Whole Duty of a Woman (London: printed for H. Woodgate and S. Brooks, in Paternoster Row), price 1s. [ESTC T223145]. 146 pp. 8o.
  42. The Whole Life and Merry Exploits of Bold Robin Hood, Earl of Huntingdon (London: printed for Henry Woodgate and Samuel Brooks, at the Golden Ball, in Paternoster Row) [ESTC N25807]. 122 pp. 12o.
  43. The Wooden World Dissected, in the Character of a Ship of War, 8th edn (London: printed for H. Woodgate and S. Brooks, in Paternoster Row, 1761) [ESTC T201255]. 124 pp. 12o.
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  45. Amadis de Gaul
  46. Adventures of Five Englishmen
  47. Argalus and Parthenia
  48. Aristotle’s Masterpiece
  49. Aristotle’s Problems
  50. Aristotle’s Midwifery
  51. Aristotle’s Last Legacy
  52. Arraignment of Women
  53. Art of Gardening
  54. Art of Money Catching
  55. Artemidorus
  56. Arts Treasury
  57. Æsop’s Fables
  58. Baxter’s Call
  59. Book of Knowledge
  60. Bunyan’s Sighs from Hell
  61. Bury’s Hymns
  62. Call of the Son of God
  63. Cambridge Jests
  64. Cards Fortune Book
  65. Coffeehouse Jests
  66. Come and Welcome
  67. Complete Letter-Writer
  68. Cry of the Son of God
  69. Cynthia, a Novel
  70. Doctor Faustus
  71. Don Bellanis
  72. Don Quixote
  73. Doolittle’s Call
  74. Dorastus and Faunia
  75. Drake, Sir Francis
  76. Duty of Prayer
  77. Duty of the Sacrament
  78. Duty of Women
  79. Earl of Essex and Queen Elizabeth
  80. England’s Monarchs
  81. England’s Jests
  82. English Secretary
  83. English Rogue
  84. Exact Dealer
  85. Female Grievances
  86. Female Policy
  87. Fifteen Comforts of Matrimony
  88. Fortune Impostor
  89. Fortunatus
  90. Fountain of Life
  91. Four Last Things
  92. Francis Spira
  93. French Convert
  94. French Rogue
  95. Garden of Love
  96. Gouge’s Guide
  97. Gentle Craft
  98. Gentleman’s Jockey
  99. Gerhard’s Meditations
  100. Gesta Romanorum
  101. God’s Wonders
  102. Grace Abounding
  103. Great Assize
  104. Guy, Earl of Warwick
  105. Help to Discourse
  106. History of Earthquakes
  107. History of Wales
  108. History of Witches and Apparitions
  109. History of the Pirates
  110. History of the Seven Wise Masters
  111. History of the Seven Wise Mistresses
  112. Hocus Pocus; or, the Art of Legerdemain
  113. Horneck on Prayer
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  115. Lucky Ideot; or, Foolls Have Fortu[n]e
  116. Ladies Delight
  117. Lambert on Cattle
  118. Laugh and Be Fat
  119. Life of Christ
  120. Life of the King of Prussia
  121. Life of Jonathan Wylde
  122. Lives of the Apostles
  123. Lives of the Highwaymen
  124. London Bawd
  125. London Jests
  126. London Spy
  127. Mariner’s Jewel
  128. Memorable Accidents
  129. Mock Royalty, a Novel
  130. Moll Flanders
  131. Montelion
  132. New Book of Songs
  133. New Year’s Gift
  134. Nine Novels
  135. Nine Worthies
  136. Oxford Jests
  137. Parismus
  138. Pilgrim’s Progress, in three parts
  139. Pindar of Wakefield
  140. Pleasures of Matrimony
  141. Polidore and Julia
  142. Prodigal Son
  143. Profitable Recreation
  144. Quakers Academy
  145. Queen’s Cookery
  146. Quevedo’s Visions
  147. Religious Courtship
  148. Reynard the Fox
  149. Robin Hood
  150. Robinson Crusoe
  151. Rochester’s Poems
  152. Russel’s Seven Sermons
  153. Russel’s Prayer
  154. Russel on the Sacrament
  155. Saint Indeed
  156. Sally Salisbury
  157. School of Recreation
  158. Scotch Rogue
  159. Secretary’s Guide
  160. Seven Champions
  161. Shepherd’s Calendar
  162. Sinner’s Tears
  163. Spanish Rogue
  164. Tales of the Fairies
  165. Token for Mariners
  166. Token for Mourners
  167. Travels of Christ
  168. Travels of True Godliness
  169. Travels of True Ungodliness
  170. Triumph of Wit
  171. Twelve Cæsars
  172. Twelve Novels
  173. Two Concubines
  174. Visions of Hell
  175. Universal Letter-Writer
  176. Vocal Companion; or, Songster’s Delight
  177. Wars of England
  178. Wars of the Jews
  179. Week’s Preparation, two parts
  180. Wit’s Cabinet
  181. Wonderful Prodigies
  182. Young Man’s Guide
  183. Youth’s Divine Pastime, 1st Part
  184. Youth’s Divine Pastime, 2nd Part