32 titles (see below)

  • original leather-backed marbled boards
  • London: S Hazard for J Marshall, 1795
By CHEAP REPOSITORY For Moral and Religious Publications.

CHEAP REPOSITORY For Moral and Religious Publications. London: S Hazard for J Marshall, circa 1795. 12mo, [xxiv] including 22 pages of Subscriber's names + History of Tom White the Postilion, Way to Plenty, Two Shoemaker, Shepherd of Salisbury-Plain (two parts), Book of Martyrs, Two Soldiers, Plague in London 1665, Execution of Maclean (Gentleman Highwayman), Divine Songs by Isaac Watts, Life of William Baker, Lancashire Collier Girl, Beggerly Boy, Good Mother's Legacy, Daniel in the Lion's Den, Noah's Flood, Hints to all Ranks of People, Harvest Home, Two Wealthy Farmers (two parts), Laborer's in the Vineyard, Sorrowful Sam, the Guinea and the Shilling, True Book in Verse, Wonderful Escape from Shipwreck, Husbandry Moralized, Babay story of a good Negro Woman, Murders, Religious Advantages of the Inhabitants of Great Britain, Happy Waterman, Sorrows of Yamba, Carpenter, each separately paginated from 8pp to 32pp and mostly front woodcut; original leather-backed marbled boards (heavily rubbed, small spine defects).

RARE COLLECTION from the first year of Cheap Repository chapbook tracts, many authored anonymously by Hannah More.

Details

Title

32 titles (see below)

Author

CHEAP REPOSITORY For Moral and Religious Publications.

Binding

original leather-backed marbled boards

Condition

Unknown

Publisher

S Hazard for J Marshall: London

Date

1795

Size

12mo

Pages

8pp to 32pp


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