The bad bargain; or, The world set up to sale

All titles

• The bad bargain; or, The world set up to sale
• Cheap Repository; World set up to sale

People / Organizations

• Hannah More (Author)

Imprint

London] : Sold by J. Masrhall [i.e. Marshall], printer to the Cheap Repository for Moral and Religious Tracts) no. 17, Queen-Street, Cheapside, and no. 4, Aldermary Church-Yard, London. By S. Hazard, at Bath; J. Elder, at Edinburgh, and by all booksellers, newsmen, and hawkers, in town and country. Great allowance will be made to shopkeepers and hawkers, [1797

Added name

Marshall, John (Printer), printer, bookseller.; Hazard, Samuel, -1806, bookseller.; Lee, John, -1804, wood-engraver.; Elder, John, active 1788-1800, bookseller.

Publication year

1797

ESTC No.

T21324

Grub Street ID

240131

Description

7, [1] p. : 1 ill. ; 8°.

Note

Anonymous. By Hannah More

The illustration is a wood engraving on the title page, signed "Lee" (i.e. John Lee)

Second line of imprint ends "Moral and Re-"

A different edition from those with R. White in imprint (ESTC T21325 and N504396)

Page 8 contains list of tracts from 1st June 1795 to 1st April 1796. According to Spinney (48b), the lists of tracts by month were not revised after September 1796, although they are included in many editions that were clearly printed later

Price in imprint: Price one halfpenny. Or 2s. 3d. per 100.-1s. 3d. for 50.- 9d. for 25

Below price in imprint: A cheaper edition for hawkers

Below imprint in square brackets: Entered at Stationers Hall

Entered in the Stationers' Register 30 December 1796

Unsigned ([A]]4).

Uncontrolled note

Not a reissue of 4418.f.4(7)