<oai_dc:dc xmlns:oai_dc="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/" xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:schemaLocation="http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc/ http://www.openarchives.org/OAI/2.0/oai_dc.xsd"><dc:title>The old man, his children, and the bundle of sticks : a fable</dc:title><dc:date>[1795 or 1796]</dc:date><dc:language>eng</dc:language><dc:description>Verse begins: "A good old man, no matter where,".</dc:description><dc:description>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.</dc:description><dc:description>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.</dc:description><dc:description>This form of imprint was in use from May 1795 to January 1796 (Spinney).</dc:description><dc:description>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.</dc:description><dc:description>Description based on imperfect impression.</dc:description></oai_dc:dc>