Parley the porter :
an allegory : shewing how robbers without can never get into an house unless there are traitors within.

Description

Main Author

More, Hannah, 1745-1833.

Related Names

Hazard, Samuel, d. 1806.
Hatchard, John, 1768-1849.
Lee, John, d. 1804.
Howard & Evans.

Language(s)

English

Published

London : Sold by Howard and Evans, (printers to the Cheap Repository for Moral and Religious Tracts,) No. 41 and 42, Long-Lane, West-Smithfield : [between 1801 and 1811]

Subjects

Chapbooks > Chapbooks / Specimens.
Chapbooks > Chapbooks / England > Chapbooks / England / London > Chapbooks / England / London / 19th century

Note

Includes 1 woodcut.
First sentence: "There was once a certain gentleman who had a house or castle situated in the midst of a great wilderness, but inclosed in a garden."
Woodcut: title-page vignette, signed 'Lee' (i.e. John Lee).
At head of title: Cheap Repository.
Approximate date established from Brown, P. London publishers and printers c.1800-1870.
By Hannah More; signed Z on p. 16.

Physical Description

16 p. ; 18 x 12 cm.

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