Research Catalog

The Cheapside apprentice; or The history of Mr. Francis H**** : fully setting forth the danger of playing with edge tools. Shewing also, how a gay life may prove a short one ; and that a merry evening may produce a sorrowful morning.

Title
The Cheapside apprentice; or The history of Mr. Francis H**** : fully setting forth the danger of playing with edge tools. Shewing also, how a gay life may prove a short one ; and that a merry evening may produce a sorrowful morning.
Author
More, Sarah, approximately 1743-1817.
Publication
[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, 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, [1796].

Items in the Library & Off-site

Filter by

1 Item

StatusFormatAccessCall NumberItem Location
Request Appointment

Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Schwarzman Building to submit a request in person.

TextPermit needed Pforz (Cheap repository) V3Schwarzman Building - Pforzheimer Collection Room 319

Details

Additional Authors
  • Marshall, John (Printer)
  • White, Richard, active 1795-1796
  • Hazard, Samuel, -1806
  • Elder, John, active 1788-1800
Description
16 pages : 1 illustration; 18 cm
Uniform Title
Cheap repository.
Alternative Title
  • History of Mr. Francis H****
  • Cheap repository
Subjects
Genre/Form
Chapbooks
Note
  • Signatures: A⁸.
  • Horizontal chain lines.
  • "Great allowance will be made to shopkeepers and hawkers."
  • "Price 1d. or 4s. 6d. per 100 -- 2s. 6d. for 50 -- 1s. 6d. for 25."
  • "Entered at Stationers' Hall" (in italics).
  • In this issue, the second line of imprint ends "and Re-".
  • Signed "S" (i.e., Sarah More) on page 16.
  • Publication date from ESTC.
  • This issue not noted by Spinney.
  • Woodcut title vignette.
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
942116251
Author
More, Sarah, approximately 1743-1817.
Title
The Cheapside apprentice; or The history of Mr. Francis H**** : fully setting forth the danger of playing with edge tools. Shewing also, how a gay life may prove a short one ; and that a merry evening may produce a sorrowful morning.
Publisher
[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, 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, [1796].
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, T30552
Spinney, G. H. Cheap Repository tracts: Hazard and Marshall edition. In The library, 4th ser. vol. 20 no. 3, December 1939, 62a
Local Note
Pforzheimer copy: Bound seventeenth 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.
Connect to:
Request Access to the Pforzheimer Collection
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.
Elder, John, active 1788-1800, publisher.
Research Call Number
Pforz (Cheap repository) V3
View in Legacy Catalog