Author: Shepard, Leslie
Title: John Pitts: Ballad Printer of Seven Dials, London 1765-1844...a Short Account of his Predecessors in the Ballad & Chapbook Trade
Description: London, Private Libraries Assn. (1969). orig.cloth. 25x16cm, 160 pp. 29pp facsimile illustrations. Some rubbing. VG. ¶ Contents: The Ballad & Chapbook Market Before Pits; John Pitts & the Revival of Street Literature; The Age of Pitts & Catnach; The Ballad Market after Pitts and Catnach; Broadsides & Chapbooks by Pitts & his Contemporaries; Appendices: Genealogy; Obituary of John Pitts; A Short List of Publications by John Pitts; Collection of Pitts Material; Stationers' Company Register of Ballads, 1675; Fortey Collection: Sotheby Sale Records, 1906.

Keywords: British Publishing History, England Publisher, Great Britain, London Publishers, Ballad Ballads, Chapbook Chapbooks, Bibliography, John Pitts Printer, Street Literature