The history of idle Jack Brown. Containing the merry story of the mountebank, with some account of the bay mare Smiler. Being the third part of the Two shoemakers
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- The history of idle Jack Brown. Containing the merry story of the mountebank, with some account of the bay mare Smiler. Being the third part of the Two shoemakers
- Two shoemakers. Part 3
- Cheap Repository
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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, [1796
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Marshall, John (Printer), printer, bookseller.; White, Richard, active 1795-1796, bookseller.; Hazard, Samuel, -1806, bookseller.
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- 1796
- ESTC No.
- T160957
- Grub Street ID
- 200208
- Description
- 21, [3] p. : 1 ill. ; 8°.
- Note
- Signed: Z. [i.e. Hannah More]; The illustration is a woodcut on the title page
Price from imprint (preceded by ---): Great allowance will be made to shopkeepers and hawkers. Price 1d. 1/2 each, or 6s. 9d. per 100.-50 for 3s. 9d.-2s. 3d.for 25
Below imprint in italics, in square brackets: Entered at Stationers Hall
Entered in the Stationers' Register 29 February 1796 (Spinney)
According to Spinney, this form of imprint was in use from May 1795 to January 1796, but this edition was clearly published after February 1796
Advertisements on p. [23] list tracts by price; the list of one-penny tracts ends with "The Lancashire collier girl"; that of halfpenny tracts, with "Advantages of religion". Advertisements on p. [24] list tracts by publication date, from June 1795 through February 1796
This edition not recorded by G.H. Spinney, 'Cheap Repository tracts: Hazard and Marshall edition.' In Library, 4th series, volume 20:3 (December 1939), 53
Signatures: A-C]4.