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More, Hannah (1745-1833).
The History of the Two Shoemakers; Selected from the Cheap Repository Tracts.
Publisher: Printed for The Sabbath School Union For Scotland, Edinburgh;
Date of Publication: 1818
Stock Code: 10954
Chapbook. Softcover, 12 mo bound in sixes, pp., 132. Engraved frontispiece ”Jack Brown Arrested for Debt” and Sabbath Union tailpiece to final leaf. Two parts in one volume. Original printed grey thin card wraps. Cover lightly creased with minor loss to corners and moderate loss to spine. Numerous leaves corner creased. A moral tale contrasting the lives of two apprentice shoemakers, drawn from Hannah More’s series of Cheap Repository Tracts. More (1745-1833) was a writer, social reformer and philanthropist, and her highly successful works (many, as here, printed as chapbooks) were aimed at poorly educated readers, teaching the virtues of sobriety, industry and trust in God. As is the case with all of More’s tracts this work went through a number of different editions and was printed in as many as five parts. The pagination and text here though suggests that this work is complete in itself. A seemingly unrecorded Edinburgh edition with WorldCat locating no institutional copies. £200.00