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

• Religioous [sic] ("printed for")
• Daniel Defoe (Author)

Imprint

Bath] : sold by S. Hazard, (printer to the Cheap Repository for Religioous [sic] and Moral Tracts) at Bath: by J. Marshall, at the Cheap Repositories, no. 17, Queen-Street, Cheapside, and no. 4, Aldermary Church-Yard ; and R. White. Piccadilly, London; and by all booksellers, newsmen, stationers, and hawkers, in town and country, [1795

Added name

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

Publication year

1795

ESTC No.

T70345

Grub Street ID

294103

Description

23, [1] p. : 1 ill. ; 12°.

Note

A Cheap Repository tract

The illustration is a woodcut on the title page

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

Printed in Caslon type; Spinney suggests that the use of Caslon indicates that Marshall was the printer, but it is not certain that Hazard always used Fry types, though he commonly did so

Price below imprint: Great allowance to shopkeepers and hawkers. Price 1d, or 4s. 6d. per 100, 2s. 6d. for 50, 1s. 6d. for 25

Two variants are known: 1) "Entered at Stationers' Hall." is printed below the price in black letter, in square brackets (overprinted with a heavy black rule in at least one copy); 2) not present. The title was not entered in the Stationers' Register

"A hymn on death and eternity, suited to the foregoing occasion": p. 23; verse - first line: "Stoop down, my thoughts, that use to rise,"

"At the Cheap Repository, may be had the following tracts ...": p. [24]; all the titles listed were published in 1795

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

Unsigned ([A]]1]2).