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The Chap-Book

Date1896

Illustration CitationAdvertisement for The Chap-Book

MediumTwo-color lithograph

Dimensionscomposition: 13 1/4 × 7 7/8 in. (33.7 × 20 cm)
sheet: 15 7/8 × 10 7/8 in. (40.3 × 27.6 cm)

Credit LineGift of Helen Farr Sloan, 1977

Object number1977-239

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Label TextThe Chap Book was a literary magazine published in Chicago from 1894-1898, dedicated to "all that is most modern and aggressive in the Young Man's literature." The magazine introduced little known writers and poets of the era, such as William Butler Yeats, Henry James, Henrik Ibsen, H. G. Wells, and Arthur Rimbaud to American audiences.

Frank Hazenplug was a designer for Stone and Kimball, the publishing house which inaugurated the "little magazine" in America. These publications were periodicals dediated to short stories, poetry, essays, criticism, book reviews and other broadly literary genres (as opposed to larger commercial magazines).The art poster was their primary means of promotion. Hazenplug's dramatic color schemes and spare details exemplify what became known as the poster style.