The gin-shop; or, a Peep into a prison
- All titles
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- The gin-shop; or, a Peep into a prison
- Cheap Repository; Peep into a prison
- People / Organizations
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- Imprint
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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, [1795 or 1796
- Added name
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Marshall, John, (Printer), printer, bookseller.; Hazard, Samuel, -1806, bookseller.; White, Richard, active 1795-1796, bookseller.
- Publication year
- 1795-1796
- ESTC No.
- T195114
- Grub Street ID
- 228874
- Description
- 1 sheet ([1] p.) : 1 ill. ; 1/2°.
- Note
- Signed: Z. [i.e. Hannah More]; Verse - "Look through the land from north to south,"
In three columns, within a border of type ornaments; the columns are separated by columns of different type ornaments; the title and imprint each extend across the three columns, above and below respectively; the woodcut is above the second column
Price from imprint: Great allowance will be made to shopkeepers and hawkers. Price an halfpenny, or 2s. 3d. per 100, 1s. 3d. for 50, 9d. for 25
At foot of column 3, in italics, in square brackets: Entered at Stationers Hall
Entered in the Stationers' Register 20 February 1795 (Spinney)
This form of imprint was in use from May 1795 to January 1796 (Spinney)
In this edition, the phrase "printer to the Cheap Repository" following Hazard's name in the imprint is not in parentheses; and the em-dashes in column 1 (3d and last stanzas), column 3 (7th and 9th stanzas), and in the imprint are set as single em-dashes. In another edition (ESTC N508503), the phrase following Hazard's name is in parentheses; and the em-dashes are set as three consecutive hyphens
This edition not recorded by G.H. Spinney, 'Cheap Repository tracts: Hazard and Marshall edition.' In Library, 4th series, volume 20 (1939-1940) number 3 (no. 8).