Concept
Pamphlet
Overview
A pamphlet is an unbound book (that is, without a hard cover or binding). Pamphlets may consist of a single sheet of paper that is printed on both sides and folded in half, in thirds, or in fourths, called a leaflet, or it may consist of a few pages that are folded and saddle stapled or sewn at the crease to make a simple book.
In the "International Standardization of Statistics Relating to Book Production and Periodicals", UNESCO defines a pamphlet as "a non-periodical printed publication of 5 to 48 pages, excluding covers, published in a specific country and available to the public," while a book is "a non-periodical printed publication of at least 49 pages, excluding covers." These definitions are intended solely for UNESCO's book production statistics.
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The pamphlets which we have reprinted, written as they were by English contemporaries of Peter the Great, are far from concurring in the common delusions of later historians. They emphatically denounce England as the mightiest tool of Russia.
Karl Marx, Secret Diplomatic History of The Eighteenth Century
Names Pamphlet several times; opens on Pamphlet.
I became his zealous partisan, and contributed all I could to raise a party in his favour, and we combated for him a while with some hopes of success. There was much scribbling pro and con upon the occasion; and finding that, tho' an elegant preacher, he was but a poor writer, I lent him my pen and wrote for him two or three pamphlets, and one piece in the Gazette of April, 1735. Those pamphlets, as is generally the…
Benjamin Franklin, The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin
States what Pamphlet is; names Pamphlet twice.
Against which what can a judicious friend Morellet do; a Rivarol, an unruly Linguet (well paid for it),—spouting _cold!_ Now also, at length, does come discussion of the Protestant Edict: but only for new embroilment; in pamphlet and counter-pamphlet, increasing the madness of men. Not even Orthodoxy, bedrid as she seemed, but will have a hand in this confusion.
Thomas Carlyle, The French Revolution
Names Pamphlet several times.
Philosophers who discussed Pamphlet
- Edmund Burke
- Lysander Spooner
- Emma Goldman
- The Age of Reason
- Adolphe Garnier
- Constantin François Chassebœuf, comte de Volney
Related ideas
Place in the tradition
Part of Academic publishing.