Cheap repository for moral & religious publications :
the price of which is in general an halfpenny or a penny, and will seldom exceed two-pence : two or three new ones will be published every month.

Description

Related Names

Hazard, Samuel, d. 1806.
White, R.
Marshall, John, printer.
More, Hannah, 1745-1833.

Language(s)

English

Published

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 : [1796]

Subjects

Cheap repository.
Chapbooks > Chapbooks / Specimens.
Chapbooks > Chapbooks / England > Chapbooks / England / London > Chapbooks / England / London / 18th century
Subscription lists (Publishing) > Subscription lists (Publishing) / England > Subscription lists (Publishing) / England / London > Subscription lists (Publishing) / England / London / 1796.

Note

First sentence: "This institution was opened in March 1795."
Announces the reorganization of the Cheap Repository tracts, which occured in early 1796. Cf. G.H. Spinney, Cheap Repository Tracts (The Library, 4th ser., v. 20, no. 3), p. 303.
Includes list of subscribers and list of tracts already published; last tracts listed published in 1796: "The Touchstone" and "Sinful Sally". Cf. G.H. Spinney, Cheap Repository Tracts (The Library, 4th ser., v. 20, no. 3), p. 324.
Text of p. [1]-3 signed: Henry Thornton ..., treasurer.
Concerning the series of Cheap Repository tracts initiated and written by Hannah More and her associates.
Caption title; imprint from colophon.

Physical Description

3, [21] p. ; 16 x 10 cm. (12mo)

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