JPK_elmediat, (edited ) A yellow-back or yellowback is a cheap #Novel which was published in Britain in the second half of the #19thCentury. They were occasionally called "mustard-plaster" novels.[1]
Developed in the #1840s to compete with #PennyDreadfus, yellow-backs were marketed as entertaining reading. They had brightly coloured covers, often printed by #Chromoxylography, that were attractive to a new class of readers, thanks to the spread of education and rail travel.
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