The grand assizes; or, General goal delivery

All titles

• The grand assizes; or, General goal delivery
• Cheap Repository. Sunday reading; General goal delivery

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

Added name

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

Publication year

1797

ESTC No.

T48889

Grub Street ID

276723

Description

13, [3] p. : 1 ill. ; 12°.

Note

Signed: Z., i.e. Hannah More

The illustration is a woodcut on the title page

Pages [15-16] contain advertisements, including a listing of the three titles published each month from June 1795 through September 1796. According to Spinney (48b), the lists of tracts by month were not revised after September 1796, although they are included in many editions that were clearly printed later

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

Price below imprint: Great allowance will be made to shopkeepers and hawkers. Price one penny. Or 4s. 6d. per 100.-2s. 6d. for 50.-1s. 6d. for 25. A cheaper edition for hawker [sic]

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

Entered in the Stationers' Register 1 August 1796 (Spinney)

This edition not recorded by G.H. Spinney, 'Cheap Repository tracts: Hazard and Marshall edition.' In Library, 4th series, volume 20 (1939-1940) number 3 (no. 69)

This form of imprint was in use from January to July 1797 (Spinney)

Signatures: A]8.