Anonymous. By Daniel Defoe., An abridgment and adaptation of 'A general history of the robberies and murders of the most notorious pyrates'., Not in ESTC., For further information, consult library staff., With bookplate of Wichita City Library Driscoll Piracy Collection., and In slipcase.
Caption title., Verse begins: "Of all the callings and the trades"., Signed: Z, i.e. Hannah More., In two columns with the title and woodcut above both; title, text and imprint within a border of typographical ornaments., At head: Cheap repository., Above imprint in italics, in square brackets: Entered at Stationers Hall., Price below imprint: [Within the border:] Great allowance will be made to shopkeepers and hawkers. [Below the border:] Price an halfpenny, or 2s. 3d. per 100.-1s. 3d. for 50.-9d. for 25., T his form of imprint was in use from May 1795 to January 1796 (Spinney)., Mounted on leaf 55. Copy trimmed., Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 1., and Volume 1, leaf 55: Copy trimmed within border resulting in loss of imprint.
Publisher:
Sold by J. Marshall, and R. White, London. By S. Hazard, at Bath; and by all booksellers, newsmen, and hawkers in town and country
Verse begins: "Of a worthy London 'prentice"., Dated from the address; see David Stoker, "John Marshall, John Evans, and the Cheap Repository tracts, 1793-1800", PBSA 107:1 (2013), 81-118, In four columns, with the title and illustration above the first two; the imprint is under the last two columns, below a single rule; the columns are not separated by rules., Cf. ESTC no. T36639 with imprint: Printed and sold by J. Evans, No. 41, Long-lane, West-Smithfield, London., Mounted on leaf 70. Copy trimmed., and Bound in three-quarters red morocco leather with marbled boards, with spine title stamped in gold: Old English ballads, woodcuts, vol. 1.
Publisher:
Printed and sold by J. Evans, No. 41 Long-Lane, London
