[Rarebooks] FS: Servant Man Turned Soldier 1796 Cheap Repository Chapbook

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Sunday Reading Servant Man Turned Soldier 1796 Cheap Repository Series 
Chapbook

[Cheap Repository] "Sunday Reading. The Servant Man turned Soldier; or, 
The Fair Weather Christian. A Parable"
London, William Marshall: 1796.

The 'Cheap Repository of Moral and Religious Tracts' began publication 
in March 1795, founded by Hannah More, a religious writer and 
philanthropist who was concerned with the low moral character of many of 
the cheaply-printed chapbook then in circulation. Eventually more than 
200 titles were issued. More is believed to have authored more than half 
the titles in the original series, and her sister Sarah may have written 
several more. The chapbooks were initially printed by Samuel Hazard of 
Bath, but it in May, 1795 John Marshall became the joint ‘Printer to the 
Cheap Repository’, and in January, 1796, Marshall became the sole 
printer, with Hazard relegated to the role of distributor. Marshall 
issued collected editions of the current tracts at the end of 1795 and 
1796, and this example almost certainly comes from the end-of-year 
collected 1796 volume. More and Marshall quarreled in 1797, and Marshall 
was dismissed at the end of that year, with John Evans taking over as 
printer. The series continued issuing new titles until about 1817, and 
remained in print, under a number of different printers and publishers, 
into the 1830s.

Paper covers. 4.5"x7", 16 pages, woodcut illustration on the title page. 
Some wear and soil, removed from a larger volume. $50

The Covers ->
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