A modern name applied by book-collectors and others to specimens of the popular literature which was formerly circulated by itinerant dealers or…

the cheap literature of the bookstalls (cf. stall-edition n.).

ballads, chapbooks, etc., sold in the street.

= chap-book, n.

(a) a book containing the names of those subscribing to any cause or object (with the amounts of their subscriptions); (b) U.S. a book sold from…