For a penny in 18th-century England you could buy a book on how best to broil pigeons or make birch tree wine, read an account of the last execution by burning in Britain, or puzzle your way through rhyming riddles. Chapbooks were virtually the only reading matter for the poorer classes and provide for today's reader a window onto the heroes and legends, folklore and superstitions of the past. This collection contains over 100 chapbooks, with facsimiles of the original covers and woodcut illustrations.