Jemmy Catnach, son of a Northumberland printer, set up in Seven Dials in London and flooded the streets with penny ballads, broadsides, gallows confessions and children’s chapbooks. Charles Hindley traces the family press from Berwick, Alnwick and Newcastle to London, with Catnach’s rivalries and many of the rough, lively texts he printed.
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