Preface........................................ix
Introduction...................................xi
Acknowledgements...............................xv
I. Vestibulum: Theory and Practice...........1
II. The Salvation of Souls...................18
III. Enter Tom Thumb..........................27
IV. Serious Business.........................40
V. The House that Newbery Built.............51
VI. Rivals and Imitators, London.............62
VII. Frances Laetitia Earle: Her Books........83
VIII. Rivals and Imitators, the Provinces......95
IX. Begged, Borrowed, or Stolen.............107
X. "The Dawn of Levity"....................118
XI. The Innovators..........................135
XII. Epigones................................168
XIII. "Chapbooks" for Children................200
XIV. Tracts and Transition...................217
XV. The Road to Paflagonia..................228
XVI. The Rose and the Ring...................248
Introduction to Chapters XVII - XX............257
XVII. Marketing...............................259
XVIII.Bindings................................267
XIX. Special Markets.........................277
XX. Marks of Possession.....................289
References....................................299
Index of Names................................305
Index of Titles...............................307
Index of Printers & Publishers................311
Index of Subjects.............................314
Chronological Index...........................316
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