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A 'pamphlet' is an unbound booklet (that is, without a hard cover or binding). It 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 in half and stapled at the crease to make a simple book. In oder to count as a pamphlet, UNESCO requires a publication (other than a periodical) to have 'at least 5 but not more than 48 pages exclusive of the cover pages'; a longer item is a book.
Pamphlets can contain anything from information on kitchen appliances to medical information and religious treatises. Pamphlets are very important in marketing as they are cheap to produce and can be distributed easily to customers. Pamphlets have also long been an important tool of political protest and political campaigning for similar reasons.
The storage of individual pamphlets requires special consideration because they can be easily crushed or torn when shelved alongside hardcover books. For this reason, they should either be kept in file folders in a file cabinet, or kept in boxes that have approximately the dimensions of a hardcover book and placed vertically on a shelf.
The word ''pamphlet'' for a small work (''opuscule'') issued by itself without covers came into Middle English ca 1387 as ''pamphilet'' or ''panflet'', generalized from a twelfth-century amatory comic poem with a satiric flavor, ''Pamphilus, seu de Amore'' ("Pamphilus: or, Concerning Love"), written in Latin [1]). ''Pamphilus' name was derived from Greek, "loved by all". The poem was popular and widely copied and circulated on its own, forming a slim codex..
Its modern connotations of a tract concerning a contemporary issue was a product of the heated arguments leading to the English Civil War; this sense appeared in 1642.[2] In some European languages other than English, this secondary connotation, of a disputaceous tract, has come to the fore.
1. ''OED'' s.v. "pamphlet".
2. On-line Etymology Dictionary.
UNESCO definition
In German or in French, the word ''pamphlet'' often has negative connotations of slanderous libel or extremist religious propaganda, and should not be literally translated to or from English. Correct translations include "Flugblatt" and "Wurfschrift" in German, and "Fascicule" in French. In Russian, the word "pamflet" ("памфлет") is also normally used to denote a work of propaganda and/or satire and does not directly describe the form of publication at all, so it is best translated as "brochure" ("брошюра").
★ Airborne leaflet propaganda
★ Brochure
★ Flyer
★ Randy Silverman, 1987. "Small, Not Insignificant: a Specification for a Conservation Pamphlet Binding Structure", ''The Book and Paper Group Annual'' '6'. Historical overview focusing on pamphlet binding.
Polish soldiers reading a German leaflet during the Warsaw Uprising
A 'pamphlet' is an unbound booklet (that is, without a hard cover or binding). It 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 in half and stapled at the crease to make a simple book. In oder to count as a pamphlet, UNESCO requires a publication (other than a periodical) to have 'at least 5 but not more than 48 pages exclusive of the cover pages'; a longer item is a book.
Pamphlets can contain anything from information on kitchen appliances to medical information and religious treatises. Pamphlets are very important in marketing as they are cheap to produce and can be distributed easily to customers. Pamphlets have also long been an important tool of political protest and political campaigning for similar reasons.
The storage of individual pamphlets requires special consideration because they can be easily crushed or torn when shelved alongside hardcover books. For this reason, they should either be kept in file folders in a file cabinet, or kept in boxes that have approximately the dimensions of a hardcover book and placed vertically on a shelf.
The word ''pamphlet'' for a small work (''opuscule'') issued by itself without covers came into Middle English ca 1387 as ''pamphilet'' or ''panflet'', generalized from a twelfth-century amatory comic poem with a satiric flavor, ''Pamphilus, seu de Amore'' ("Pamphilus: or, Concerning Love"), written in Latin [1]). ''Pamphilus' name was derived from Greek, "loved by all". The poem was popular and widely copied and circulated on its own, forming a slim codex..
Its modern connotations of a tract concerning a contemporary issue was a product of the heated arguments leading to the English Civil War; this sense appeared in 1642.[2] In some European languages other than English, this secondary connotation, of a disputaceous tract, has come to the fore.
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Notes
1. ''OED'' s.v. "pamphlet".
2. On-line Etymology Dictionary.
Reference
UNESCO definition
Note to translators
In German or in French, the word ''pamphlet'' often has negative connotations of slanderous libel or extremist religious propaganda, and should not be literally translated to or from English. Correct translations include "Flugblatt" and "Wurfschrift" in German, and "Fascicule" in French. In Russian, the word "pamflet" ("памфлет") is also normally used to denote a work of propaganda and/or satire and does not directly describe the form of publication at all, so it is best translated as "brochure" ("брошюра").
See also
★ Airborne leaflet propaganda
★ Brochure
★ Flyer
External links
★ Randy Silverman, 1987. "Small, Not Insignificant: a Specification for a Conservation Pamphlet Binding Structure", ''The Book and Paper Group Annual'' '6'. Historical overview focusing on pamphlet binding.
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