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    • Author/Creator:More, Hannah, 1745-1833.
    • Title:The gin-shop, or, A peep into a prison.
    • Published/Created:[Bath] : Sold by S. Hazard, (printer to the Cheap Repository for moral and religious tracts) at Bath; by J. Marshall, printer to the Cheap Repositories, No. 17, Queen-street, Cheap-side, and No. 4, Aldermary Church-yard; and R. White, Piccadilly, London; and by all booksellers, newsmen, and hawkers, in town and country, [1795]
    • Physical Description:1 sheet ([1] p.) : 1 ill. (woodcut) ; 44 x 28 cm.
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    • Local Notes:BEIN BrSides 2011 72: 44 x 30 cm.
    • Notes:Caption title.
      Signed: Z. [i.e. Hannah More].
      Date from Spinney.
      Verse - "Look through the land from north".
      Following imprint: "Great Allowance will be made to Shopkeepers and Hawkers."
      Price from imprint: "Price an Half-penny, or 2s, 3d, per 100, 1s, 3d, for 50, 9d. for 25."
      A Cheap repository tract.
    • Variant and related titles:Gin-shop
      Peep into a prison
      First line: Look through the land from north to south
    • Format:Book
    • References:English short title catalogue, T040816
      Spinney, G.H. Cheap repository tracts. (Library, ser. 4, v. 20 (1940): [295]-340), 8
    • Subjects:Ballads, English--Texts--Early works to 1800.
      Alcoholism--England--Songs and music--Early works to 1800.
      Gin--Songs and music--Early works to 1800.
    • Subjects (Local Yale):Brit tracts--1795.
    • Genre/Form:Broadside poems--England--Bath--1795.
      Woodcuts--England--1795.