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The shopkeeper turned sailor, or, The folly of going out of our element : shewing what a clever man John the shopkeeper was in his own business, and what a rash step he took in resolving to go upon the water.

Title: The shopkeeper turned sailor, or, The folly of going out of our element : shewing what a clever man John the shopkeeper was in his own business, and what a rash step he took in resolving to go upon the water. Part I.
Author: More, Hannah, 1745-1833.
Publication: [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, Piccadilly, London. By S. Hazard, at Bath : and by all booksellers, newsmen, and hawkers, in town and country, [1796]

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Description

8 pages : 1 illustration; 18 cm

Uniform Title

Cheap repository.

Alternative Title

Folly of going out of our element
Cheap repository

Subjects

Genre/Form

Chapbooks.

Note

At head of titlepage: "Cheap repository."
"Great allowance will be made to shopkeepers and hawkers."
"Price one halfpenny. -- 2s. 3d. per 100. -- 1s. 3d. for 50. -- 9d. for 25."
"Entered at Stationers Halll."
Other editions signed "Z" (i.e., Hannah More) at end.
In this edition the end of the second line of the imprint reads: "for religi-".
In verse.
Woodcut title vignette.

Indexed In (note)

Spinney, G. H. Cheap Repository tracts: Hazard and Marshall edition. In The library, 4th ser. vol. 20 no. 3, December 1939
English short title catalogue

Call Number

Pforz (Cheap repository) V3

OCLC

1051643427

Author

More, Hannah, 1745-1833.

Title

The shopkeeper turned sailor, or, The folly of going out of our element : shewing what a clever man John the shopkeeper was in his own business, and what a rash step he took in resolving to go upon the water. Part I.

Publisher

[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, Piccadilly, London. By S. Hazard, at Bath : and by all booksellers, newsmen, and hawkers, in town and country, [1796]

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Cheap repository.

Indexed In:

Spinney, G. H. Cheap Repository tracts: Hazard and Marshall edition. In The library, 4th ser. vol. 20 no. 3, December 1939, 55b

English short title catalogue, T48066

Local Note

Pforzheimer copy: Bound twenty-seventh of 34 in volume 3 of the Cheap Repository tracts. -- Contemporary drab boards, more recently rebacked, red morocco spine label, gilt spine titlings and rules.

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Place of Publication

England London

Added Author

Marshall, John (Printer), printer.

Marshall, John (Printer), publisher.

White, Richard, active 1795-1796, publisher.

Hazard, Samuel, -1806, publisher.

Research Call Number

Pforz (Cheap repository) V3

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