Research Catalog

Title

Prayers to be used by a child or young person -- by a grown person -- by the master or mistress of a Sunday school -- and by the master or mistress of a family.

Author

Thornton, Henry, 1760-1815

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, J. Elder, at Edinburgh, and by all booksellers, newsmen, and hawkers, in town and country, [1797].

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Details

Additional Authors

• Marshall, John (Printer)
• White, Richard, active 1795-1796
• Elder, John, active 1788-1800
• Hazard, Samuel, -1806
• Lee, John, -1804

Description

24 pages : 1 illustration; 18 cm (12mo)

Uniform Title

Cheap repository.

Alternative Title

Cheap Repository. Sunday Reading

Subjects

• Chapbooks
• Prayers
• Prayer > Christianity

Genre/Form

• Prayers.
• Chapbooks

Note

• Signatures: [A]-C⁴.
• At head of title: "Cheap Repository. Sunday Reading."
• "Great allowance will be made to shopkeepers and hawkers."
• "Price 1d. ¹/₂ or 6s. 9d. per 100 -- 3s. 9d. for 50 -- 2s. 3d. for 25."
• "Entered at Stationers Hall."
• Possibly by Henry Thornton (see Spinney).
• Publication date from Spinney.
• Woodcut title vignette signed "Lee" (i.e., John Lee).

Indexed In (note)

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

Call Number

Pforz (Cheap repository) V3

OCLC

316419979

Author

Thornton, Henry, 1760-1815, attributed name.

Title

Prayers to be used by a child or young person -- by a grown person -- by the master or mistress of a Sunday school -- and by the master or mistress of a family.

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, J. Elder, at Edinburgh, and by all booksellers, newsmen, and hawkers, in town and country, [1797].

Edition

A cheaper edition for hawkers

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Cheap repository.

Indexed In:

English short title catalogue, T48872

Spinney, G. H. Cheap Repository tracts: Hazard and Marshall edition. In The library, 4th ser. vol. 20 no. 3, December 1939, 79a

Local Note

Pforzheimer copy: Bound tenth 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.

Elder, John, active 1788-1800, publisher.

Hazard, Samuel, -1806, publisher.

Lee, John, -1804, illustrator.

Research Call Number

Pforz (Cheap repository) V3