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The gravestone : being an account (supposed to be written on a gravestone,) of a wife who buried both her children on one day, and who, from that time, became a very devout Christian : with a suitable address to those who may be attending a funeral.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection PR4839.K4 S3 1798
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- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Cheap repository.
- Cheap repository
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Chapbooks, English--Specimens--Early works to 1800.
- Chapbooks, English.
- Genre:
- Chapbooks.
- Publishers' advertisements.
- Penn Provenance:
- Eyre, Francisca Alicia Bootle, -1810 (former owner) (inscription) (Kislak Center copy)
- Boyce, G. P. (autograph) (Kislak Center copy)
- Physical Description:
- 7, [1] pages : 1 illustration ; 19 cm (12mo)
- Fingerprint:
- l:l, e;n, D.d, e;e, (C) 1798 (Q)
- Place of Publication:
- [London] : Sold by J. Evans (printer to the Cheap Repository for Moral and Religious Tracts,) no. 41 and 42, Long-Lane, West-Smithfield, and J. Hatchard, no. 173, Piccadilly, London ; [Bath] : By S. Hazard, Bath : And by all booksellers, newsmen, and hawkers in town and country, [1798?].
- Notes:
- English short title catalogue records two settings. One (N505685; dated 1798?) has imprint which begins "Sold by J. Evans ..." and whose second line ends: "Religious Tracts,)". The other (N7978; dated between 1799-1801?) has imprint which begins "Sold by J. Evans and Co." and whose second line ends: "and Religious". In this copy, the imprint begins "Sold by J. Evans ..." and its second line ends: "and Religious".
- Imprint date conjectured by English short title catalogue: "Evans became printers to the Cheap Repository in December 1797; the form J. Evans and Co. was used from 1799. Hatchard was at 173 Piccadilly until July 1801; this story did not appear in the 1798 collected edition of Cheap Repository shorter tracts, but was added in the 1799 edition."
- Signatures: [A]⁴.
- Horizontal chain lines.
- Woodcut title illustration signed: Lee (that is, John Lee). See English short title catalogue.
- "Entered at Stationers Hall." appears in brackets at foot of title leaf.
- "Great allowance will be made to shopkeepers and hawkers. Price an halfpenny, or 2s. 3d. per 100.---1s. 6d. for 50---9d. for 25."--Title leaf.
- "The following tracts have been printed and published by J. Evans:": Page [8].
- 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 N505685 (variant?)
- OCLC:
- 1533956486
- Bound With:
- Kislak Center copy bound with: Satan's device, or, The devil no changeling.
- Online:
- The Pauline R. Goldfein Memorial Book Fund Home Page
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