Author: [MORE (Hannah)]
Title: The History of Hester Wilmot. In Two Parts. Being a Continuation of the Sunday School.
Description: Bath: Sold by Howard and Evans, (printers to the Cheap Repository for Moral and Religious Tracts) No. 41, and 42, Long-Lane, West-Smithfield : And also by J. Hatchard, No. 190, Piccadilly ; By S. Hazard : And by all Booksellers, newsmen, and hawkers, in town and country, [c. 1805.] 8vo (170 x 110 mm), 28pp., woodcut vignette to title, disbound. Cheap Repository Tracts is the title of a popular series of chapbooks written in the 18th century by evangelist Hannah More. Cheaply produced and therefore affordable to many, these moral tales were intended to discourage political dissent and unscrupulous lifestyles. Politically conservative, the stories were made more appealing by the addition of woodcut illustrations. Many of of these tracts were signed: "Z," i.e. Hannah More.

Keywords: CHAPBOOKS CHEAP REPOSITORY MORAL PHILOSOPHY CHILDREN'S BOOKS