Annually published books and sheets based on the calendar with the observations on the passage of time, the seasons, astronomical data and the interpretation of these data.

A ballad was a popular song that had many subgenres such as the love ballad, the satirical ballad and the execution ballad. Ballads were common across Europe.

Broadsheets (or broadsides) is a portmanteau term referring to a form of prints consisting of only a single sheet, printed on one side only in the case of broadsides.

The term chapbook is used in scholarship in a double sense: first, as a collective term to indicate cheaply printed booklets. Secondly, the term refers to a specifically British and American genre.

Criminal narratives are stories about criminals, be it fictional or non-fictional. This genre comprises many forms such as criminal biographies, dying speeches, murder and execution ballads, and penny prints.

Devotional literature accounted for a major stream of steady sellers across Europe from the early days of print onwards.

Jestbooks are collections of jokes and humorous anecdotes in book form.

Various types of print related to Christmas and the new year circulated in the early modern period. 

Almost exclusively written in the vernacular, pamphlets were typically short writings of a polemic or propagandistic nature on topical (social, political, religious) issues.

The term playbill is used for a bill, placard or poster that advertised plays and was intended for public display. They usually also gave the names of the actors. Playbooks contained the theatre texts themselves.

Sermons were printed and published either in the form of pamphlets (containing a single sermon) or as collections containing the most popular sermons of one or more preachers.

Topical or occasional poetry was written in response to an event in the family (birth, marriage, death) or public sphere (battle, commemoration), or on the occasion of a poetry contest (e.g. of rhetoricians, or the Spanish justas poéticas).