Murders. True examples of the interposition of providence, in the discovery and punishment of murder

All titles

• Murders. True examples of the interposition of providence, in the discovery and punishment of murder
• Examples of the interposition of providence in the detection and punishment of murder. Selections
• Cheap Repository

People / Organizations

• Henry Fielding (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 or 1796

Added name

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

Publication year

1795-1796

ESTC No.

T160505

Grub Street ID

199964

Description

12 p. : 1 ill. ; 12°.

Note

The illustration is a woodcut on the title page

Below caption title on p. [2]: "(By that famous magistrate, Mr. Justice Fielding.)"; a selection from Fielding's "Examples of the interposition of providence in the detection and punishment of murder"

Price below imprint: Great allowance will be made to shopkeepers and hawkers. Price an halfpenny each, or 2s. 3d. per 100.-1s. 3d. for 50.-9d. for 25

Also issued as part of 'Cheap repository tracts, published during the year 1795. Forming volume I.', London, [1796]

"A prayer to God, that our national crimes may not bring down national punishments": p. 12; verse - "Where Justice waves her vengeful hand"

This form of imprint was in use from May 1795 to January 1796 (Spinney)

Signatures: A]6.