SMALL BOOKS AND PLEASANT HISTORIES: Popular Fiction and its Readership in Seventeenth-Century England By Margaret Spufford Athens: University of Georgia Press, (1982). First edition, first printing. "Published in 1982 in the United States of America by the University of Georgia Press" statement to the copyright page. Illustrated with woodcuts, maps, tables and with four black and white plates from early original art depicting pedlar dolls, culture mediators, and books. Spufford shows how the first publisher/booksellers, who dealt in reasonably priced chapbooks for the general population, worked, influenced, grew, distributed, sold, stimulated culture for village folk, and more. She also examines the contents of the books and how they evolved. Fine in fresh smoke-black linen with gilt embossed titles to the spine, red headband and tail-band; in a very nearly fine dust jacket with a few very tiny surface nicks to the front panel. Octavo; 275 pages; appendix; index. PLEASE VIEW OUR STORE FOR MORE LITERARY BOOKS THANKS! On Dec-11-03 at 18:03:08 PST, seller added the following information: