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James Kendrew was a nineteenth century publisher and distributor of chapbooks in York, UK.

Early life
James Kendrew was born in 1772.

James was based at 23 Colliergate York, where he began, at the age of 29, to work as a bookseller, stationer, printer and bookbinder, and spent 40 years producing chapbooks

Later life
James died in 1841, at the age of 69, at which point the business passed onto his son John Lofthouse Kendrew. The business was sold in in 1848. James was predeceased by his wife Mary who died in 1834 aged 62.

Publications
A Chapbook was a small, cheaply produced pamphlet of nursery rhymes, ballads or popular folk tales, often greatly abridged and illustrated with woodblock images. They were mainly produced between the seventeenth and nineteenth centuries.

Kendrew produced three main series of works:


 * Twenty two sixteen page half penny titles
 * Six twenty four page penny titles
 * twenty one thirty two page penny titles

Current interest
Kendrew's publication of "World turned upside down" from 1820 was the inspiration for York artist Stephen Lee Hodgkins in 2020 during the global Covid-19 pandemic. York library (Explore) launched the "World Turned Upside Down 2020" community project which asked people to send in poems and drawings to try and make sense of what happened in "this very strange year." Hodgkins then created a 20 page traditionally produced chapbook which is held in all the York libraries, and a donated copy sits in the Archives along side the original World Turned Upside Down chapbook.