Pamphlet Library

Pamphlet [pam-flit] –noun
1. a complete publication of generally less than 80 pages stitched or stapled together and usually having a paper cover.
2. a short treatise or essay, generally a controversial tract, on some subject of contemporary interest: a political pamphlet.
[Origin: 1375–1425; late ME pamflet < AL panfletus, pamfletus, syncopated var. of Pamphiletus, dim. of ML Pamphilus, title of a 12th-century Latin comedy. See -et]

Pamphlet Library is an informal but growing collection, soon to be catalogued online at www.pamphletlibrary.org

Send pamphlets for inclusion to Pamphlet Library, 140 Millfields Road, London, E5 0AD