A chapter is one of the main divisions of a piece of writing of relative length, such as a book, being comprised of multiple pages. Chapters can be numbered in the case of such writings as law code (see Chapter 7 or Chapter 11) or they can be titled. For example, the first chapters of some well-known novels are titled:
Many novels of great length do not have chapters. Non-fiction books, especially those used for reference, almost always have chapters for ease of navigation. In these works, chapters are often subdivided into sections. The chapters of reference works are almost always listed in a table of contents. Novels sometimes use a table of contents, but not always.
In ancient civilizations, books were often in the form of papyrus or parchmentscrolls, which contained about the same amount of text as a typical chapter in a modern book. This is the reason chapters in recent reproductions and translations of works of these periods are often presented as "Book 1", "Book 2", etc.
Chapters on fire, water, gas and heat, dust, ignorance, bookbinders, etc., all as enemies of the book.
Chapters on An Apology for the Book-Hunter, The Library, The Books of the Collector, and Illustrated Books.
The closing chapters on choice of type and the industrial conditions of the past and their relationship to problems printers face are very informative.
The book, divided into six sections such as The Background of Jazz, The Jazz Revival, The Coming of Modern Jazz, etc. is a compilation of articles previously published in various magazines.
The content of the chapter is an elaboration and expansion of the booklet that accompanied the release in 1988 of the Sunbeam set of recordings "Sincerely, Bix Beiderbecke".
The booklet was expanded and is one of the chapters in Deffaa's book "Voices of the Jazz Age".
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