A. R. Merrifield, Northampton, Mass.

This publisher appears to have only published work during 1841 and 1842. A number of chapbooks are dated and they have been placed into one of two series based on their publication date. There were a fair number of chapbooks that have no date and they are noted below but not included in either of the two dated sets.

No information about this person or his/ her book publishing firm is known.
It is unknown whether it had any relationship to two other Northampton outfits that published /printed during these years: J. H. Butler and J. Metcalf.

1841 Chapbook series

Published by A. R. Merrifield in 1841. It is likely that 12 titles were in the set. Only ten have been identified.

Wraps. Line drawn cover picture. Dated on the title page. 5.25" x 3".
18 pp

1842 Chapbook series

Published in 1842 by A. R. Merrifield. It is likely that there were 12 titles in this series. Only nine are known.

Illustrated

Wraps. Various colors. Non-book specific line drawn cover and title page illustration.
Cover and title page illustrations are not necessarily the same for different books of the same title. See below: "Poetic Present".
Dated on the title page. 4" x 2.75".

These chapbooks were published without dated title pages. Some of these titles have been noted also to have dated title pages and are included in the series above.

The title pages of the books pictured below have not been seen.