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
London] : sold by J. Marshall, (printer to the Cheap Repository for Religious and Moral Tracts) no. 17, Queen-Street, Cheapside, and no. 4, Aldermary Church-Yard. and R. White, Piccadilly, London. By S. Hazard, at Bath: and by all booksellers, newsmen, and hawkers, in town and country, [1796
Added name
Marshall, John (Printer), printer, bookseller.; Hazard, Samuel, -1806, bookseller.; White, Richard, active 1795-1796, bookseller.
Publication year
1796
ESTC No.
T70346
Grub Street ID
294104
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 from imprint: Great allowance will be made to shopkeepers and hawkers. Price one penny. Or 4s. 6d. per 100.-2s. 6d. for 50.-25 for 1s. 6d

Also issued in: 'Cheap repository tracts, published during the year 1795. Forming volume I.', London, [1796?]. This edition was published in 1796, but earlier editions were published in 1795

Below imprint in italics, in square brackets: Entered at Stationers Hall. [Not in fact 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,"

In this edition, there is a single rule below "Cheap Repository"; the price is "Price one penny; the advertisements on page 2 begin: "On the 1st of June was published," and the last group of titles is headed "On the 1st of December"; and in the advertisements on p. [24], the list of halfpenny tracts ends with "Religious advantages, &c.", and the list of penny tracts ends with "Lancashire collier girl"

This form of imprint was in use from February to December 1796 (Spinney)

Unsigned ([A]]1]2).