The troubles of life, or, The guinea and the shilling. Cheap repository ; [46a]
Bibliographic Citation:
The troubles of life, or, The guinea and the shilling. 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 ; Bath : By S. Hazard : And by all Booksellers, newsmen and hawkers, in town and country, [1796]
Alternative Title:
Troubles of life
Guinea and the shilling
Sunday reading
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 : [1796]
Notes:
  • Anonymous.
  • Undated. Entered at Stationers Hall, Dec. 3, 1795, but this edition printed Feb.-May 1796; cf. Spinney, cited below.
  • Date from Spinney, ESTC has [1795].
  • At head of title: Cheap repository. Sunday reading.
  • Caption title: The troubles of life, &c.
  • Woodcuts: title page vignette; headpiece; beginning of each story. Those for 'The disappointed lover' and 'The child of sorrow' signed Lee [i.e., John Lee].
  • Publisher's advertisement on p. [36] lists tracts published to Dec.
  • First sentence: "'Man is born to trouble as the sparks fly upward.'"
  • Includes 12 woodcuts.
  • Contents: The poor laborer -- The little shopkeeper -- The great tradesman -- The sick man -- The disappointed lover -- The unhappy husband -- The widower -- The child of sorrow -- The guinea and the shilling.
  • Citations/References: Spinney, G.H. Cheap repository tracts (The Library, 4th ser., v. 20, no. 3, Dec. 1939, p. [295]-340), 46a
  • Citations/References: ESTC, T48911
Physical Description:
text.chapbook.black and white, 17 x 10 cm. (12 mo.)
Language:
English
Chapbook Category:
Religious and Moral
Digital Collection:
McGill Library's Chapbook Collection
Copyright:
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Link to this chapbook:
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Chapbook Identifier:
PN970_C52_no_46a