Chap-books of the eighteenth century
Chap-books of the eighteenth century is a collection of cheap popular pamphlets gathered and edited by John Ashton, published in London by Chatto and Windus in 1882 and aimed at general readers curious about old street literature. The woodcut pictures are crude, bold black-line blocks with hatched shading, scenes of hanging, execution, a meeting of hands, and a roadside encounter, offering a designer strong, simplified figure silhouettes and graphic hatching to borrow.
