The market woman, a true tale; or, Honesty is the best policy

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  • The market woman, a true tale; or, Honesty is the best policy
  • Cheap Repository; Honesty is the best policy
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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. 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.
T173125
Grub Street ID
210427
Description
1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. (woodcut) ; 1/2°.
Note
Signed: Z. [i.e. Hannah More]; Verse - "A farmer's wife to market went"

All within a border of type ornaments, except price at foot. Inside the border: Great allowance will be made to shopkeepers and hawkers. Outside the border: Price an halfpenny, or 2s. 3d. per 100.-1s. 3d. for 50.-9d. for 25

Text in two columns; at foot of column 2 in roman type, in square brackets: Entered at Stationer's Hall

Entered in the Stationers' Register 20 February 1795 (Spinney)

bb 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), 14.