- Creator:
- More, Hannah, 1745-1833
- Published / Created:
- [1795 or 1796]
- Call Number:
- Folio 74 OL1 v. 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Alternative Title:
- Cheap Repository
- Description:
- Caption title., Anonymous. By Hannah More., This form of imprint was used between May 1795 and January 1796 (Spinney)., Verse begins: Near Lechlade town, in Glostershire ..., This edition has all except the price within a border consisting of intertwined ropes, one of leaf-like ornaments, the other of open ornamental dots; the words "Cheap Repository" interrupt the border in the center at the top; the two columns of text are separated by a vertical double rule., Below imprint: Great allowance will be made to shopkeepers and hawkers. Price below the border: Price an halfpenny, or 2s. 3d. per 100.---1s. 3d. for 50.---9d. for 25., Above imprint and below text, in italics: Entered at Stationers Hall., Entered in the Stationers' Register to Hannah More, 31 August 1795., The woodcut shows a family sitting by a fire at night in a room with a candle., This edition not recorded by G.H. Spinney, 'Cheap Repository tracts: Hazard and Marshall edition.' In Library, 4th series, volume 20 (1939-1940) number 3 (no. 35)., Mounted on leaf 26. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 1.
- Publisher:
- Sold by J. Marshall, printer to the Cheap Repository for Religious and Moral Tracts, at 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
- Subject (Topic):
- Candles, Fireplaces, Sewing, and Reading
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Dame Andrews : a ballad
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- Published / Created:
- [1795?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 74 OL1 v. 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Alternative Title:
- Handsome butcher of St. James's Market
- Description:
- Title from caption above woodcut that appears above the first two columns., Another issue has no imprint. Cf. ESTC T21841., Verse in four columns: "Young men and pretty maidens ...", Mounted on leaf 2. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 1.
- Publisher:
- Sold at no. 42, Long Lane
- Subject (Topic):
- Songs, English and Single women
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The amorous lady's garland, or, The handsome butcher of St. James's Market
- Published / Created:
- [1795?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 74 Ol1 v. 2
- Image Count:
- 1
- Description:
- Verse - "Oh! I went into the stable, and there for to see ...", Caption title., Another printing or issue (ESTC T206415) is from the same setting of type, but has imprint "Printed by Wise and Co. no. 89, Rosemary-Lane"; the spacing between stanzas in the third column is smaller in that one. In this one, the first line of the second column aligns with the line beginning "And there I saw" in the third column. Both have the same type ornaments between the columns, and the same typographical errors: "dc" (for "do") in line 9 of the second column, and "llke" (for "like") in line 3 up in the third column., Date based on the date assigned to ESTC T206415., In three columns with the title and woodcut (divided into two compartments) above the first two; the columns are separated by ornamental rules., Lewis Walpole Library copy: Sheet trimmed; imprint statement wanting., Mounted on leaf 5. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 2.
- Publisher:
- Printed by Wise and Co. no. 89, Rosemary-Lane
- Subject (Topic):
- Domestic relations, Husband and wife, and Adultery
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The merry cuckold and kind wife
- Published / Created:
- [between 1793 and 1796?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 74 OL1 v. 2
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text and still image
- Description:
- Verse -- "You gallant beaus of pleasure,". -, In five columns with the title and two woodcuts above the first three; the imprint spans the bottom of the last two, below a series of long dashes; the columns are separated by columns of ornamental rules and type ornaments., Dated from the address; see David Stoker, "John Marshall, John Evans, and the Cheap Repository tracts, 1793-1800", PBSA 107:1 (2013), 81-118., Mounted on leaf 27. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 2.
- Publisher:
- Sold by J. Evans, No. 41, Long-Lane, West-Smithfield
- Subject (Topic):
- Ballads, English, Husband and wife, Money, Prostitution, Wealth, Swine, Dogs, Chickens, Roosters, and Birds
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The rakish husband's garland