The parish nurse.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Marshall, John (Printer), printer, bookseller.

Pauline R. Goldfein Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Cheap repository.

Cheap repository

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Parish nursing--Fiction--Early works to 1800.

Parish nursing.

Chapbooks, English--Specimens--Early works to 1800.

Chapbooks, English.

Genre:

Chapbooks.

Penn Provenance:

Eyre, Francisca Alicia Bootle, -1810 (former owner) (inscription) (Kislak Center copy)

Boyce, G. P. (autograph) (Kislak Center copy)

Physical Description:

16 pages : 1 illustration ; 19 cm (12mo)

Fingerprint:

er." ntnt u-ou shst (3) 1798 (Q)

Place of Publication:

[London] : Printed and sold by John Marshall, at the Cheap Repository, no. 17, Queen-Street, Cheapside, and no. 4, Aldermary Church-Yard, Bow-Lane, London : and may be had of the booksellers, newsmen, and hawkers, in town and country, [not before 1798]

Notes:

"Two editions are known; one was published in December 1798, the other almost certainly later, but there is no evidence indicating which was published first. In this edition, the 'P' of 'Price' is below the 'A' of "Allowance', and 'Price one penny.' is in capitals, not letter-spaced. Spinney does not differentiate the editions."--English short title catalogue.

Signatures: [A]⁸.

Horizontal chain lines.

Woodcut title illustration and tail-piece.

"Entered at Stationers Hall." appears in square brackets at foot of title leaf. "Entered in the Stationers' Register 1 December 1798 (Spinney)."--English short title catalogue.

"Great allowance to shopkeepers and hawkers. Price one penny. Or, 4s. 6d. per 100.-2s. 6d. for 50,-1s. 6d. for 25."--Title leaf.

"Part of a separate series issued by Marshall acting alone, not connected with Hannah More's Cheap Repository."--English short title catalogue.

Local Notes:

Kislak Center copy has manuscript bibliographical note in pencil signed "G.P. Boyce" on front pastedown.

Kislak Center copy acquired for the Penn Libraries in 2024 from Dean Cooke with assistance from the Pauline R. Goldfein Memorial Book Fund.

Kislak Center copy has early manuscript ownership inscription ("This book belongs to Mrs Eyre of Grove Hall") of Francisca Alicia Eyre (née Bootle; d. 1810), wife of Anthony Hardolph Eyre (1757-1836) on front pastedown.

Cited in:

English short title catalogue N509013

Spinney, G.H. "Cheap Repository tracts: Hazard and Marshall edition." In Library, 4th series, volume 20 (1939-1940) number 3, 151

OCLC:

1533958943

Bound With:

Kislak Center copy bound with: Satan's device, or, The devil no changeling.

Online:

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