Life of William Baker, with his funeral sermon, by the Rev. Mr. Gilpin

All titles

• Life of William Baker, with his funeral sermon, by the Rev. Mr. Gilpin
• Cheap repository

People / Organizations

• William Gilpin (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, printer to the Cheap Repository, at Bath: and by all booksellers, newsmen, and hawkers, in town and country, [1795

Added name

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

Publication year

1795

ESTC No.

T40984

Grub Street ID

269985

Description

23, [1] p. : 1 ill. ; 12°.

Note

The illustration is a woodcut on the title page

Price below imprint: Great allowance will be made to shopkeepers and hawkers. Price one penny, or 4s. 6d. per 100.-2s. 3d. for 50.-25 for 1s. 6d

There are at least five editions (or printings) with this imprint, indistinguishable from the title pages, but with varying settings of the advertisements on p. [24]. Spinney's descriptions (nos. 13a and 13b) do not exactly match any of the copies examined, but describe this imprint

In this edition (or printing), the advertisements are headed "This day are published"; the listing of half-penny tracts ends with "The horse race" and the listing of penny tracts ends with "Execution of Maclean", both published in 1795; and line 5 from the bottom begins "CHEAP REPOSITORIES"

This form of imprint was in use from May 1795 to January 1796 (Spinney)

Also issued as part of: 'Cheap repository tracts, published during the year 1795. Forming volume I.', London, [1797?]

Signatures: A]1]2.