History of the plague in London in 1665; with suitable reflections

All titles

• History of the plague in London in 1665; with suitable reflections
• Journal of the plague year. Abridgments
• Cheap repository

People / Organizations

• Daniel Defoe (Author)

Imprint

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

Added name

Marshall, John (Printer), printer, bookseller.; Hazard, Samuel, -1806, bookseller.; White, Richard, active 1795-1796, bookseller.

Publication year

1795

ESTC No.

N2767

Grub Street ID

16916

Description

23, [1] p. : 1 ill. ; 12°.

Note

An abridgment and adaptation of "A journal of the plague year" by Daniel Defoe

Price from imprint: Great allowance will be made to shopkeepers and hawkers. Price a penny, or 4s. 6d. per 100. 2s. 6d. for 50. and 1s. 6d. for 25

"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 between two slightly swelled rules; the price is "Price a penny"; the advertisements on page 2 begin: "This day are published," and the second group of titles is headed "On the 1st of July, 1795, will be published"; and in the advertisements on p. [24], the list of halfpenny tracts ends with "Wild Robert", and the list of penny tracts ends with "The beggarly boy"

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.