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List Of Cheap Repository Tracts
The ''Cheap Repository Tracts The ''Cheap Repository Tracts'' consisted of more than two hundred moral, religious and occasionally political tracts issued in a number of series between March 1795 and 1817, and subsequently re-issued in various collected editions until the 1830 ...'' were a series of moral, religious and political tracts first published between 1795 and 1817. Only British first editions are listed here except where a new edition contains an amended text or a new title (in which case the amended titles are given a new entry). The entries are grouped according to the series in which they were first issued, and then in the order given by Spinney (1939). The numbers in the first column are those allocated by Spinney (1–187) and running numbers thereafter. They do not necessarily reflect the order in which they were published. "First-day tracts" (March–June 1795) Hazard/Marshall series (July 1795 – February 1796) John Marshall "official" series (March 1796 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cheap Repository Tracts
The ''Cheap Repository Tracts'' consisted of more than two hundred moral, religious and occasionally political tracts issued in a number of series between March 1795 and 1817, and subsequently re-issued in various collected editions until the 1830s. They were devised by Hannah More and intended for sale or distribution to literate poor people, as an alternative to what she regarded as the immoral traditional broadside ballad and chapbook publications. The tracts proved to be enormously successful with more than two million copies sold or distributed during the first year of the scheme. Background During the early 1790s there was widespread concern about the possibility of a popular uprising in Britain following the French Revolution, and the radical ideas which were circulating in popular publications. The English religious writer and philanthropist Hannah More referred to the ‘corrupt and vicious little books and ballads which have been hung out of windows in the most alluring f ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
