Who were called Chapmen?

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Book seller

Paper seller

Workers of printing press

Seller of ‘penny chapbooks’

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Chapmen were seller of ‘penny chapbooks’. Penny chapbooks were those books which covered literature topics and stories for children to adults. These books were then sold on the streets to earn a penny. Therefore, these books are known as Penny chapbooks, and persons who sell penny chapbooks are known as Chapmen. These penny chapbooks were very cheap and easily affordable. They were made up of light pages and these were short books. These were pocket-friendly books, usually written on one page and then folded to make a book, and were generally sold by the peddlers, known as Chapmen. They used to earn pennies and gain their livelihood.

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