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Bibliographic Citation:

More, Hannah, 1745-1833. The shepherd of Salisbury Plain. London : Sold by J. Marshall (printer to the Cheap Repository) for Moral and Religious Tracts,) No. 17, Queen-street, Cheapside, and No. 4, Aldermary Church-Yard, Bow-Lane, And R. White, Piccadilly, London; Bath : S. Hazard (printer to the Cheap Repository) at Bath; and by all Booksellers, Newsmen, and Hawkers, in Town and Country, [1795]

Alternative Title:

Shepherd of Salisbury-Plain

Creator:

More, Hannah, 1745-1833.

Contributor:

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

Publisher:

Sold by J. Marshall (printer to the Cheap Repository) for Moral and Religious Tracts,) No. 17, Queen-street, Cheapside, and No. 4, Aldermary Church-Yard, Bow-Lane, [1795]

Notes:

"Cheap repository" at head of title.
By Hannah More; signed 'Z' on p. 21.
Undated. Date from Spinney, cited below.
"[Entered at Stationers Hall.]" (in black letter).
The shepherd's hymn: p. 22.
Publisher's advertisements on p. 23-24.
First sentence: "Mr. Johnson, a very worthy charitable Gentleman, was travelling some time ago across one of those vast Plains which are well known in Wiltshire."
Includes 1 woodcut.
Citations/References: Spinney, G.H. Cheap repository tracts. (The Library, 4th ser., v. 20, no. 3 (Dec. 1939): 295-340), 19 (variant).

Physical Description:

text.chapbook.black and white, 16 x 9 cm.

Language:

English

Subject:

Contentment -- Religious aspects -- Christianity.
Christian life.
Chapbooks -- Specimens.

Genre/Form:

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

Chapbook Category:

Religious and Moral

Call Number:

PN970 C52 no.19d 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_19d