Author: [MORE (Hannah)]
Title: The History of Tom White, the Postillion. In Two Parts.
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, slight crease to title, disbound. "Tom White was one of the best drivers of a post-chaise on the Bath road." 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 BATH SOMERSET