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

All titles

• 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

• Hannah More (Author)

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.

T35942

Grub Street ID

265947

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 7 cm (longer than the width of the phrase); "Stationers' Hall" below imprint is mius-spelled "Station sr' Hall"; p. 6 ends with an ornament that incorporates the word "FINIS"; and the list of tracts in the advertisements ends on p. [8] with April 1796

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 Station sr' [sic] Hall

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

Unsigned ([A]]4).

Uncontrolled note

PENDING/NA: 4/85 HAP