The history of idle Jack Brown. Containing the merry story of the mountebank, with some account of the bay mare Smiler. Being the third part of the Two shoemakers

All titles

• The history of idle Jack Brown. Containing the merry story of the mountebank, with some account of the bay mare Smiler. Being the third part of the Two shoemakers
• Two shoemakers. Part 3
• Cheap Repository

People / Organizations

• Hannah More (Author)

Imprint

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, at Bath, and by all booksellers, newsmen, and hawkers in town and country, [1796

Added name

Marshall, John (Printer), printer, bookseller.; White, Richard, active 1795-1796, bookseller.; Hazard, Samuel, -1806, bookseller.

Publication year

1796

ESTC No.

T36383

Grub Street ID

266307

Description

21, [3] p. : 1 ill. ; 8°.

Note

Signed: Z. [i.e. Hannah More]; The illustration is a woodcut on the title page

Price from imprint (preceded by an em dash): Great allowance will be made to shopkeepers and hawkers. Price 1d. 1/2 each, or 6s. 9d. per 100.-50 for 3s. 9d.-2s. 3d.for 25

Below imprint in italics, in square brackets: Entered at Stationers Hall

Entered in the Stationers' Register 29 February 1796 (Spinney)

This form of imprint was in use from February to December 1796 (Spinney)

Advertisements on p. [23] list tracts by price; the list of one-penny tracts ends with "The Lancashire collier girl"; that of halfpenny tracts, with "Advantages of religion". Advertisements on p. [24] list tracts by publication date, from June 1795 through April 1796

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

Signatures: A-C]4.