McGill Library's Chapbook Collection

Bibliographic Citation:

More, Hannah, 1745-1833. The happy waterman. Bath : Sold by S. Hazard, printer to the Cheap Repository for Religious and Moral Tracts ; London : By J. Marshall, printer to the cheap repository, no. 17, Queen-Street, Cheap-side, and no. 4, Aldermary Church-Yard : And R. White, Piccadilly : And by all Booksellers, newsmen, and hawkers, in town and country, [1795]

Creator:

More, Hannah, 1745-1833.

Contributor:

Hazard, Samuel, d. 1806. prt
Marshall, John, printer.
White, R. prt

Publisher:

Sold by S. Hazard, printer to the Cheap Repository for Religious and Moral Tracts ; [1795]

Notes:

At head of titlepage: Cheap Repository.
'Great allowance to shopkeepers and hawkers'.
'Price an 1/2d. or 2s. 3d. per 100. 50 for 1s. 3d. 25 for 9d.'.
Anonymous. By Hannah More.
'[Entered at Stationers Hall]' at foot of titlepage is in italics and enclosed within square brackets [ ].
Woodcut on title page has been cut down to fit the page.
Adertisement on verso of t.p., headed: On the 1st of September will be published.
First sentence: "A gentleman and lady walking on the banks of the river Thames, spied a small ferry-boat with a neatly dressed waterman rowing towards them; on this nearer approach, they read on the stern of his boat, these words, The Happy Waterman."
Includes 1 woodcut.
Citations/References: Spinney, G.H. Cheap repository tracts. (The Library, 4th ser., v. 20, no. 3 (Dec. 1939): 295-340), 31
Citations/References: ESTC T36002

Physical Description:

text.chapbook.black and white, 16 x 9 cm. (12mo)

Language:

English

Subject:

Conduct of life -- Early works to 1800.
Chapbooks -- Specimens.

Genre/Form:

Chapbooks -- England -- Bath -- 18th century

Chapbook Category:

Religious and Moral

Call Number:

PN970 C52 no.31 Rare Books/Special Collections

Digital Collection:

McGill Library's Chapbook Collection

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Link to this chapbook:

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Chapbook Identifier:

PN970_C52_no_31