(18) The Glastonbury Thorn (Joseph of Arimathea).—Wynkyn de Worde, n.d.
Chap-book: The History of Joseph of Arimathea, n.d. (c. 1740).
(19) The Wandering Jew, etc.
Chap-book (dialogue), London, n.d.
Another chap-book of this sort is The History of Dr. John Faustus (Aldermary Churchyard, n.d.).
“A Ballad of the Life and Death of Doctor Faustus, the Great Congerer”, was entered in the Stationers’ Register in 1588; and Marlowe produced his play in 1589.
The humour of “topsy-turveydom” dates back to the fourteenth century Land of Cockayne, and survives to-day in nursery-rhymes and “drolls”. “The Wise Men of Gotham” was still popular in the eighteenth century. This famous nonsense-book was written by Andrew Boorde, and a Bodleian copy is dated 1630.