- 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:
- [between 1793 and 1796]
- Call Number:
- Folio 74 OL1 v. 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Alternative Title:
- Great messenger of mortality
- Description:
- In three columns with the title and two woodcuts above the first two; the imprint at foot of the third; the columns are separated by thick solid rules., Verse begins: "Fair lady lay your costly robes aside,", The verse earlier went under the title of 'The great messenger of mortality'., 'Death' precedes the first line., Imprint below third column., 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. 1.
- Publisher:
- Printed and sold by J. Evans, No. 41 Long-Lane, London
- Subject (Topic):
- Death, Grim Reaper (Symbolic character), Death (Personification), Hourglasses, and Spears
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > Death and the lady, or, The great messenger of mortality
- Published / Created:
- [1795?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 74 OL1 v. 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Alternative Title:
- Bloody brother
- Description:
- Verse - "Good Christian people all I pray,". - In five columns with the title and woodcut above the first two; the columns are not separated by rules., Date of publication from ESTC., Mounted on leaf 69. 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 (Geographic):
- Great Britain
- Subject (Topic):
- Incest, Murder, Defloration, Domestic relations, Brothers and sisters, and Gallows
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The Leeds tragedy: or, The bloody brother
- Published / Created:
- [1795?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 74 OL1 v. 2
- Image Count:
- 1
- Alternative Title:
- Unfortunate squire and unhappy lady
- Description:
- Date of publication from ESTC., Verse - "Young men and maidens all, I pray draw near,". - In four columns with the title and woodcut over the first two; the columns are not separated by rules. - In this issue the woodcut shows a standing man facing a seated woman., Mounted on leaf 9. 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 and sold by J. Evans and Co., 41 Long-Lane, West-Smithfield, London
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The Norfolk tragedy, or, The unfortunate squire and unhappy lady
- Published / Created:
- [1795?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 74 OL1 v. 2
- Image Count:
- 1
- Alternative Title:
- Fair Susan's overthrow
- Description:
- Date of publication from ESTC., Verse begins: "Beautiful virgins of birth and breeding,"., In four columns with the title and woodcut above the first two; the columns are not separated by rules., Mounted on leaf 16. 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 at No. 42, Long-Lane
- Subject (Topic):
- Sailing ships, Naval warfare, and Warships
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The Plymouth tragedy, or, Fair Susan's overthrow
- 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:
- [Mar. 3, 1795 - May 1795]
- Call Number:
- Folio 74 OL1 v. 1
- Image Count:
- 1
- Alternative Title:
- Pleasures of the course
- Description:
- "Price an half-penny, or 2s. 3d. per 100, 1s. 3d. for 50, 9d. for 25.", Text and cut within printer's flowers frame., In this edition line 35 of col. 2 includes: "health and money lost!", and the footnote has the spelling: "Lansdown"., The woodcut shows two riders with a leafy branch overhead; this has a bare twig protruding., LWL copy imperfect: bottom portion of sheet including price and imprint wanting. Sheet trimmed within border., Mounted on leaf 57. 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 S. Hazard, (printer to the Cheap Repository for moral and religious tracts) at Bath : By J. Marshall, at the Cheap Repositories, No. 17, Queen-street, Cheap-side, and No. 4, Aldermary Church-yard : R. White, Piccadilly, London; and by all booksellers, newsmen, and hawkers, in town and country. Great allowance will be made to shopkeepers and hawkers
- Subject (Topic):
- Horse racing and Race horses
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The horse race, or, The pleasures of the course
- 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:
- [1795 or 1796]
- Call Number:
- Folio 74 OL1 v. 2
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- still image and text
- 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., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 2.
- Subject (Topic):
- Fables, English, Christian life, Conduct of life, Families, Children, Fuelwood, and Older people
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The old man, his children, and the bundle of sticks : a fable
- Published / Created:
- [between 1757 and 1784?]
- Call Number:
- Folio 74 OL1 v. 2
- Image Count:
- 1
- Resource Type:
- text and still image
- Alternative Title:
- Highwaymen catch'd in their own play
- Description:
- Verse begins: "Come gentlemen, and hear this ditty,"., Printed in four columns with the woodcut and title above the first two; the imprint below the last two; the columns are separated by columns of type ornaments., Dated from the address; see David Atkinson, "Street literature printing in Stonecutter Street (1740s-1780s)", Publishing history 78 (2018), 1-45., Mounted on leaf 19. 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 and sold in Stonecutter-Street, Fleet Market
- Subject (Topic):
- Stagecoaches, Coach drivers, and Horse teams
- Found in:
- Lewis Walpole Library > The politick squire, or, The highwaymen catch'd in their own play