The baker's dream, or, Death no bad change to the poor and good.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Mason, William, 1725-1797, attributed name.

Marshall, John (Printer), printer, bookseller.

Pauline R. Goldfein Memorial Book Fund.

Series:

Cheap repository.

Cheap repository

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Religious fiction--Early works to 1800.

Religious fiction.

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

Chapbooks, English.

Genre:

Chapbooks.

Booksellers' advertisements.

Penn Provenance:

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

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

Physical Description:

14, [2] pages : 1 illustration ; 19 cm (12mo)

Other Title:

At head of title: Sunday reading

Baker's dream

Death no bad change to the poor and good

Fingerprint:

."t, edhe ,Iit M.++ (3) 1799 (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 had of the booksellers, newsmen, and hawkers, in town and country, [1799]

Notes:

Text signed at end: M. "Has been attributed to William Mason, but in error, according to Spinney."--English short title catalogue.

Colophon on page [16] reads: London, printed and sold by John Marshall, No. 4, Aldermary Church-Yard, Bow-Lane, Cheapside.

"Entered at Stationers Hall" appears in square brackets at foot of title leaf. "Entered in the Stationers' Register 17 September 1799"--English short title catalogue.

Signatures: [A]⁸.

Horizontal chain lines.

Woodcut title illustration and tail-piece.

"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.

"A list of tracts" (ending with Jack Flint, parts I-IV): Pages [15]-[16].

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 T48878

Spinney, G.H. "Cheap Repository tracts: Hazard and Marshall edition." In Library, 4th series, volume 20 (1939-1940) number 3, 179

OCLC:

1534287230

Bound With:

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

Online:

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