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Hist. of Street Lit. 74: The term ‘catchpenny’ was actually in use as early as 1759, and it was used by Edmond Malone in a letter to the great balladist Bishop Percy, describing an incorrect and hasty biography got up for quick sale as ‘a mere catchpenny’.at catchpenny, n.