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By their nature these tended to be cheaply produced ephemera, often flimsy and badly printed. Interest in them is as sources for popular culture, nursery rhymes and folk tales in early forms, popular politics and so on. Collectors such as Peter Opie created collections for purposes that were essentially scholarly. Political pamphlets were probably sought after first, by historians.
Chapbook is also a current term, for low-cost hard copy production particularly of poetry.
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