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

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  • The bad bargain; or, The world set up to sale
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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, at Bath; and J. Elder, at Edinburgh, and by all booksellers, newsmen, and hawkers, in town aud [sic] 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.; White, Richard, active 1795-1796, bookseller.
Publication year
1797
ESTC No.
T21325
Grub Street ID
240142
Description
7, [1] p. : 1 ill. ; 8°.
Note
Anonymous. By Hannah More

Variant: imprint has '.. By S. Hazard, at Bath; J. Elder, at ..'

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

Second line of imprint ends "Religious and"

A different edition from that omitting R. White in imprint (ESTC T21324); also different from N504396, which has commas after "4" and "Piccadilly" in the imprint, and which has no leading between the line beginning "Great allowance" and the price. The editions represented by T21325 and N504396 are not differentiated by Spinney

Page 8 contains a list of tracts from 1st October 1795 to 1st July 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.1(30)