McGill Library's Chapbook Collection

Bibliographic Citation:

More, Hannah, 1745-1833. The hackney coachman, or, The way to get a good fare : to the tune of "I wish I was a fisherman," &c. 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, Picadilly ; Bath : By S. Hazard : and by all Booksellers, Newsmen, and Hawkers, in town and country, [1796]

Alternative Title:

Way to get a good fare

Creator:

More, Hannah, 1745-1833.

Contributor:

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

Publisher:

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 : [1796]

Notes:

Cover title.
Signed at end of text: Z. [i.e. Hannah More].
Signatures: [A]⁴.
Series statement at head of title.
Publisher's advertisement: p. [1]-[2] (2nd group).
Undated. Date from Spinney (cited below).
First sentence: "I am a bold Coachman and drive a good Hack, With a coat of five capes that quite covers my back; And my wife keeps a sausage-shop not many miles From the narrowest alley in all Broad St. Giles."
Includes 1 woodcut.
Citations/References: Spinney, G.H. Cheap repository tracts (The library, 4th ser., v.20, no. 3 (Dec. 1939): 295-340), 60a.
Citations/References: BLC, v. 358, p. 278.

Physical Description:

text.chapbook.black and white, 18 cm. (12mo)

Language:

English

Subject:

Chapbooks, English.
Chapbooks -- Specimens.

Genre/Form:

Chapbooks -- England -- London -- 18th century

Chapbook Category:

Religious and Moral

Call Number:

PN970 C52 no.60a Rare Books/Special Collections - Children's Collection

Digital Collection:

McGill Library's Chapbook Collection

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Link to this chapbook:

http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/chapbooks/fullrecord.php?ID=7850

Chapbook Identifier:

PN970_C52_no_60a