The old man, his children, and the bundle of sticks : a fable

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17124898

Description

Title
The old man, his children, and the bundle of sticks : a fable
Published / Created
[1795 or 1796]
Publication Place
[London] : Sold by J. Marshall, (printer to the Cheap Repository for Moral and Religious Tracts), no. 17, Queen-Street, Cheapside, and no. 4, Aldermary Church-Yard, and R. White, Piccadilly, London. By S. Hazard, printer to the Cheap Repository, at Bath; and by all booksellers, newsmen, and hawkers in town and country
Description
Verse begins: "A good old man, no matter where,".
In two columns, separated by a column of type ornaments; the title and imprint span the columns at head and foot; there is a row of type ornaments abov the imprint; all within a border of type ornaments.
Price below imprint: Great allowance will be made to shopkeepers and hawkers. Price an half-penny, or 2s. 3d. per 100.-1s. 3d. for 50.-9d. for 25.
This form of imprint was in use from May 1795 to January 1796 (Spinney).
This edition not recorded by G.H. Spinney, ’Cheap Repository tracts: Hazard and Marshall edition.’ In Library, 4th series, volume 20:3 (December 1939), 17.
Description based on imperfect impression.
Mounted on leaf 11. Copy trimmed with loss of imprint at the foot and "Cheap Repository" at the top.
Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 2.
Extent
1 sheet (1 unnumbered page) : 33 x 21 cm
Extent of Digitization
This object has been no.
Language
English

Collection Information

Repository
Lewis Walpole Library
Call Number
Folio 74 OL1 v. 2

Subjects, Formats, And Genres

Genre
Early works to 1800
Poetry
Fables
Single sheet verse
Broadside poems
Woodcuts England London 1795
Material
1 woodcut ;
Resource Type
still image and text
Subject (Topic)
Fables, English
Christian life
Conduct of life
Families
Children
Fuelwood
Older people
Subjects
Fables, English > Early works to 1800
Christian life > Poetry > Early works to 1800
Conduct of life > Poetry > Early works to 1800
Families > Poetry > Early works to 1800
Children
Fuelwood
Older people
England > London > 1795

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Rights
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Identifiers

Orbis Record
10447254
Object ID (OID)
17124898

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