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; J. Elder, at Edinburgh, and by all booksellers, newsmen, and hawkers, in town and country, [1797

Added name

Marshall, John (Printer), printer, bookseller.; White, Richard, active 1795-1796, bookseller.; Hazard, Samuel, -1806, bookseller.; Elder, John, active 1788-1800, bookseller.

Publication year

1797

ESTC No.

T36384

Grub Street ID

266308

Description

21, [3] p. : 1 ill. ; 8°.

Note

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

Price below imprint: Great allowance will be made to shopkeepers and hawkers. Price three halfpence. Or 6s. 9d. per 100.-3s. 9d. for 50.-25 for 2s. 3d. A cheaper edition for hawkers

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 January to July 1797 (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 "Religious advantages &c." Advertisements on p. [24] list tracts by publication date, from June 1795 through April 1796

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