A is for Angler: 19th-Century Children's Chapbooks

Welcome to an online exhibit that examines three charming Scottish children’s chapbooks. The focus of the exhibit is to understand the novel aspects of early nineteenth-century, children’s alphabet chapbooks from Edinburgh, Scotland.

Material within this exhibit was sourced from the Scottish Studies Collection in the Archival & Special Collections, at the University of Guelph Library, Guelph, Ontario Canada. The detail of the painting A School for Boys and Girls by Jan Steen, was sourced from the National Galleries of Scotland’s website.

These three chapbooks are a small portion of the nearly 600 chapbooks accessible on this website.

Credits

This exhibit was created by Jennifer Oldham, a student of History 3480 (Winter 2018).

The library is committed to ensuring that members of our user community with disabilities have equal access to our services and resources and that their dignity and independence is always respected. If you encounter a barrier and/or need an alternate format, please fill out our Library Print and Multimedia Alternate-Format Request Form. Contact us if you’d like to provide feedback: lib.a11y@uoguelph.ca