Children and Cheap Print from a Transnational Perspective

Abstract From their earliest existence cheap printed texts were intended to be read by a mixed-age audience, young people included. Research on children’s literature has flourished in the last decades, nonetheless role that and ephemeral print played early modern lives been largely overlooked. Based both existing new research various European areas, this article asks how, where, when market for distinctively took shape how transnational phenomenon was. It demonstrates children avid consumers of even before they openly addressed titlepages paratexts, them developed at different paces countries. In some books produced so-called birth literature. Furthermore, essays shows evolution printing techniques especially introduction colour changed market, making wider range products more widely affordable juvenile audiences as well appealing eyes.