The hackney coachman; or, The way to get a good fare. To the tune of "i wish I was a fisherman,'' &c

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  • The hackney coachman; or, The way to get a good fare. To the tune of "i wish I was a fisherman,'' &c
  • Way to get a good fare; Cheap Repository
People / Organizations
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 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.
T35941
Grub Street ID
265946
Description
6, [2] p. : 1 illustration ; 8°.
Note
Signed at end: Z. [i.e. Hannah More]; Verse; first line: "I am a bold coachman and drive a good hack,"

The illustration is a woodcut on the title page

With a final leaf of advertisements

In this edition the rule beneath "Cheap repository" measures 4.5 cm (shorter than the width of the phrase); "Stationers' Hall" below imprint is correctly spelled; p. 6 ends "THE END." followed by an ornament; and the list of tracts in the advertisements ends on p. [8] with July 1796

Also issued as part of: "Cheap repository tracts, published during the year 1796. Forming volume II." London, [1797]

Price below imprint (with "Great allowance ... hawkers" included within the imprint): Great allowance will be made to shopkeepers and hawkers. Price one halfpenny. Or, 2s. 3d. per 100---1s. 3d. for 50.---9d. for 25

Below imprint in square brackets: Entered at Stationers' Hall

Entered in the Stationers' Register to Hannah More, 2 May 1796

Unsigned ([A]]4).