They were in the tradition of colportage, hawked by street pedlars who entered bars and workshops, or sold by tobacconists, newsagents, or at railway kiosks. |
In the case of colportage that use is taken to an extreme, as the bibliophile becomes bibliophage. |
We have ventured to employ the words colporteur and colportage to express the trade and title of those itinerant booksellers. |
These are exceedingly rare and were frankly among the works of colportage of their particular period. |