Robert and Richard; or, The ghost of poor Molly, who was drowned in Richard's mill pond. To the tune of Collins's Mulberry tree

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  • Robert and Richard; or, The ghost of poor Molly, who was drowned in Richard's mill pond. To the tune of Collins's Mulberry tree
  • Ghost of poor Molly, who was drowned in Richard's mill pond; Cheap Repository
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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, [1796
Added name
Marshall, John (Printer), printer, bookseller.; Hazard, Samuel, -1806, bookseller.; White, Richard, active 1795-1796, bookseller.
Publication year
1796
ESTC No.
T194204
Grub Street ID
228176
Description
1 sheet ([1] p.) : ill. ; 1/2°.
Note
Anonymous. By Hannah More

Verse - 'Quoth Richard to Bob, "let things go as they will,'

Printed in two columns, separated by a vertical single rule; the title spans the columns at head, and the imprint spans them at foot; all within a border of type ornaments

At foot of the second column, in italics: Entered at Stationers Hall

bb Entered in the Stationers' Register 1 January 1796 (Spinney)

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

Price below imprint. The phrase "Great allowance will be made to shopkeepers and hawkers." continues on the last line of the imprint; the price proper is outside the ornamental border: Price an halfpenny, or 2s. 3d. per 100, 1s. 3d. for 50, 9d. for 25

In this edition, there are two verses above the woodcut in the second column; the epitaph is below the woodcut. Spinney, who saw only a copy with the imprint cut off, does not differentiate the editions.