The Entertaining, moral & religious repository; [electronic resource] : containing, many separate performances, all of which are written in a pleasing stile, and are eminently calculated for the amusement and instruction of the youth of both sexes. : Published by a society in Great Britain, instituted for the beneficent purpose of aiding the intention of His Majesty, as expressed in his royal proclamation for the suppression of vice and immorality
- Bib ID:
- 3731005
- Format:
- Book
- Online Version:
- http://opac.newsbank.com/select/shaw/455
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- Description:
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- New-York: : Printed by G. and R. Waite, for Cornelius Davis, no. 167, Water-Street., 1801
- 106, [2] p. : ill. ; 17 cm.
- Series:
- Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 455.
- Full contents:
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- The carpenter; or, The danger of evil company
- The gin-shop; or A peep into a prison
- The execution of Wild Robert. Being a warning to all parents
- The horse-race; or The pleasures of the course
- The bad bargain; or The world set up to sale
- The honest miller of Glocestershire
- The roguish miller; or Nothing got by cheating.
- Patient Joe; or the Newcastle collier
- The middle way's the best
- The Hackney coachman; or The way to get a good fare
- The market woman, or Honesty is the best policy
- The plow-boy's dream
- The gravestone
- King Dionysius and Squire Damocles; a new song on an old story
- The good militia-man or The man that is worth a host
- The lady of the pye, or Know thyself
- Robert and Richard; or The ghost of Poor Molly
- The plum-cakes; or The farmer and his three sons
- The Day of Judgment; or The grand reckoning
- Here and there; or This world and the next
- Turn the carpet; or The two weavers
- Dan and Jane; or Faith and works
- The old man, his children, and the bundle of sticks
- The sorrows of Yamba; or The Negro woman's lamentation
- The true heroes; or The noble army of martyrs
- A hymn of praies [sic] for the abundant harvest of 1796
- Dame Andrews
- The story of Sinful Sally
- Care and Generosity.
- Notes:
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- A collection of religiously inspired ballads; some are signed, "Z." (i.e., Hannah More). Some of the ballads have specific tunes named. Originally published in England in the series Cheap repository tracts. The society referred to on the title page is the Religious Tract Society (Great Britain). Cf. A.S.W. Rosenbach, Early American children's books (1966), entries 235 and 258.
- Last page blank.
- Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
- Cited In:
- Shaw & Shoemaker 455
- Reproduction:
- Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 455).
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- Place:
- United States New York New York.
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- Copyright:
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- Reason for copyright status:
- Creator Date of Death is Before 1955
Copyright status was determined using the following information:
- Material type:
- Literary Dramatic Musical
- Presumed date of death of creator (latest date):
- 1833
- Published status:
- Published
- Publication date:
- 1801
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