A new Christmas tract, or, The right way of rejoicing at Christmas : shewing the reasons we have for joy at the event of our Saviour's birth : in which also a description is given of the dreadful state the world was in before his coming : with some remark
Bibliographic Citation:
A new Christmas tract, or, The right way of rejoicing at Christmas : shewing the reasons we have for joy at the event of our Saviour's birth : in which also a description is given of the dreadful state the world was in before his coming : with some remarks suited to the times in which we live. London : Sold by Howard and Evans, (printers to the Cheap Repository for Moral and Religious Tracts,) No. 41 and 42, Long-Lane, West-Smithfield : And J. Hatchard, No. 190, Piccadilly ; Bath : By S. Hazard : And by all Booksellers, newsmen, and hawkers, in town and country, [between 1801 and 1811]
Alternative Title:
Right way of rejoicing at Christmas
Sunday reading
Contributor:
Lee, John, d. 1804. egr
Hatchard, John, 1768-1849. prt
Hazard, Samuel, d. 1806. prt
Howard & Evans. prt
Publisher:
Sold by Howard and Evans, (printers to the Cheap Repository for Moral and Religious Tracts,) No. 41 and 42, Long-Lane, West-Smithfield : [between 1801 and 1811]
Notes:
  • Approximate date from Brown, P. London publishers and printers c.1800-1870.
  • At head of title: Cheap Repository.
  • A "Sunday reading."
  • Caption title: A new Christmas tract, &c.
  • Woodcut: title-page vignette, signed Lee (i.e. John Lee).
  • 36-line poem, "A Christmas hymn," begins on p. 15.
  • First sentence: "There are two ways of keeping Christmas: some seem to keep it much in the same way in which the unbelieving Jews kept their feast in honour of the calf which they had made."
  • Includes 1 woodcut.
  • Copy in McGill Library Rare Books and Special Collections: bound with: The two wealthy farmers, or, The history of Mr. Bragwell : in seven parts. London : Sold by Howard and Evans ..., [between 1801 and 1811]. Bound together subsequent to publication with 47 other chapbooks, with binder's title: Repository of Moral & Religious Tracts. Bound in brown sheep over boards.
Physical Description:
text.chapbook.black and white, 18 x 12 cm.
Language:
English
Subject:
Jesus Christ -- Nativity.
Christmas -- Meditations.
Chapbooks -- Specimens.
Genre/Form:
Chapbooks -- England -- London -- 19th century
Chapbook Category:
Religious and Moral
Call Number:
PN970 H69 T9 1801 Rare Books/Special Collections - Children's Collection
Digital Collection:
McGill Library's Chapbook Collection
Sponsor:
The McGill Library's Chapbook Collection was made possible through a generous donation from the Harold Crabtree Foundation.
Copyright:
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Link to this chapbook:
http://digital.library.mcgill.ca/chapbooks/fullrecord.php?ID=7906
Chapbook Identifier:
PN970_H69_T9_1801_003514380