Crossword-Solution: CHAPBOOK 8 letters, 6 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 21

After this the King gave him a large estate, on which he and his lady lived the rest of their days in joy and contentment.(1) (1) Old Chapbook.

THE HISTORY OF DICK WHITTINGTON AND HIS CAT Old Chapbook In the reign of the famous King Edward the Third, there was a little boy called Dick Whittington, whose father and mother died when he was very young, so that he remembered nothing at all about them, and was left a dirty little fellow running about a country village.

Had his contemporaries read the treatise, how they would have been amused to contemplate the serious literary treatment of chapbook narratives, despite Addison's praise of this ballad.

The travelling stationers and packmen carried them in their thousands, in chapbook form, into even the most remote parts of the country, where they were bartered for and explored with avidity.

Hans Christian Andersen turned him into a delightful little girl in his derivative story of "Thumbelina." The English version of "Tom Thumb" seems to have been printed first in ballad form in the seventeenth century, and later in many chapbook versions in prose.