History of the plague in London in 1665; with suitable reflections
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- History of the plague in London in 1665; with suitable reflections
- Journal of the plague year. Abridgments
- Cheap Repository
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- Imprint
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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, [1795
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Marshall, John (Printer), printer, bookseller.; White, Richard, active 1795-1796, bookseller.; Hazard, Samuel, -1806, bookseller.
- Publication year
- 1795
- ESTC No.
- N2766
- Grub Street ID
- 16907
- Description
- 23, [1] p. : 1 ill. ; 12°.
- Note
- The illustration is a woodcut on the title page
An abridgment and adaptation of "A journal of the plague year" by Daniel Defoe
Price below imprint: Great allowance will be made to shopkeepers and hawkers. Price one penny, or 4s. 6d. per 100, 2s. 6d. for 50, and 1s. 6d. for 25
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"A hymn on death and eternity, suited to the foregoing occasion": p. 23; verse - first line: "Stoop down, my thoughts, that use to rise,"
In this edition, "Cheap Repository" is in a frame of type ornaments; the price is "Price one penny"; the advertisements on page 2 begin: "On the 1st of June, 1795, will be published,"; and in the advertisements on p. [24], the list of halfpenny tracts ends with "The horse race", and the list of penny tracts ends with "Execution of Maclean"
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), 9
Signatures: A]1]2.