WOMEN, MORALITY AND ADVICE LITERATURE

Manuscripts and Rare Printed Works of Hannah More (1745-1833) and her circle from the Clark Library, Los Angeles

Part 1: Manuscripts, First Editions and Rare Printed Works of Hannah More

Part 2: Gift Books, Memoirs, Pamphlets and the Cheap Repository Tracts

Part 3: Writings by The Eminent Blue Stockings

Contents of Reels - Part 2

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1835? [Hannah More] (henceforth HM) The poetical works of Hannah More.

London. Scott, Webster and Geary

[HM] The lady’s pocket library. Containing: Miss More’s Essays; Dr Gregory ‘Legacy to his Daughters’; Lady Pennington ‘Unfortunate Mother’s Advice to her Daughters’; Marchioness of Lambert ‘Advice of a Mother to her Daughter’; Mrs Chapone ‘Letter on the Government of the Temper; Swift ‘Letter to a Young Lady newly married; Moore ‘Fables for the Female Sex’.
Philadelphia. Printed by R Folwell for Matthew Carey. First edition.

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The amulet; or Christian and literary remembrances.
Containing two Hannah More poems, ‘The Petition of the Negro Boy’ and ‘The Bazaar’.
London, Philadelphia.

1793[HM] An estimate of the Religion of the Fashionable World.
London. 5th edition.

1837[HM] The book of private devotion, a series of prayers and meditations; with an introductory essay on prayer, chiefly from the works of Hannah More.
New York, Boston. First printed in 1832. Revised and enlarged.

Memoirs; letters

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1860 Roberts, Arthur, editor and arranger
Letters of Hannah More to Zachary Macaulay, Esq.
London. James Nisbett and Co. First edition.

1834 Roberts, William
Memoirs of the life and correspondence of Mrs Hannah More.
London. R B Seeley and W Burnside. 4 vols. Second edition.

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1834 Roberts, William (continued)
Memoirs of the life and correspondence of Mrs Hannah More.
London. R B Seeley and W Burnside. 4 vols. Second edition.

1839 Arnold, S G
Memoir of Hannah More: with brief notices of her works, contemporaries, etc
New York. T Mason and G Lane.

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1838 Taylor, Thomas
Memoir of Mrs Hannah More: with notices of her works, and sketches of her contemporaries.
London. Joseph Rickerby. First edition.

1838 Thompson, Henry, MA, Curate of Wrington, Somerset
The life of Hannah More with notices of her sisters.
London, Edinburgh. T Cadell; and W Blackwood and Sons. First edition.

[1885] Buckland, AnnaJ
The life of Hannah More. A lady of two centuries.
London. Religious Tract Society. First edition.

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1851 Knight, Helen C
Hannah More or, life in hall and cottage.
New York. M W Dodd. First edition.

The Life of Hannah More with selections from her correspondence.
London. Seeley, Jackson and Halliday; and B Seeley. First edition.

1888Yonge, Charlotte M
Hannah More
London. W H Allen and Co.

Pamphlets

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Nd Anon
(1813?) The female preceptor. Containing essays, chiefly on the duties of the female sex; with a variety of useful and polite literature, poems, etc, embellished with several beautiful engravings. Conducted by a lady.
London. 2 vols. First edition.

1799 [Wolcott, John]
Nil admirari; or a smile at a bishop; occasioned by an hyperbolical eulogy on Miss Hannah More, by Dr Beilby Porteus … by Peter Pindar, Esq.
London. W & C Spilsbury for West and Hughes. First edition.

1821 [William Wordsworth]
Lost Valentines found; with other trifles in rhyme.
London. T & J Allman. First edition.

1802 [Blagdon Controversy] [Shaw, William]
The life of Hannah More. With a critical review of her writings. By the Rev Sir Archibald MacSarcasm, Bart.
London. T Hurst. First edition.

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nd [Blagdon Controversy] A collection of nine pamphlets, together with magazine articles from Volume 9 of the Anti-Jacobin Review, and a tipped in letter from Thomas Bere to G P Seymour.
First editions.

nd [Blagdon Controversy] A collection of ten pamphlets.
First editions.

1801 Glasse, George Henry
Louisa: a narrative of facts, supposed to throw light on the mysterious history of ‘The Lady of the Hay-Stack’.
London. Third edition.

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1819 [Buckland, A G]
Letters on the importance, duty and advantages of early rising. Addressed to heads of families, the man of business, the lover of nature, the student and the Christian.
London. Taylor and Hessey. Third edition.

1779 [Cowley, Hannah]
Letters of Hannah More and Hannah Cowley
Reprinted in The Gentleman’s Magazine, August, 1779, p 407.

1779[Garrick, David]
An humble invocation to Miss Hannah More, occasioned by her not having published an elegy on the death of the fully celebrated and much esteemed David Garrick, Esq.
The Gentleman’s Magazine, July, 1779, p 367.

1840 Primogenita [pseudonym]
Recollections of childhood; or, Sally, the faithful nurse.
London, Canterbury and Bristol. First edition.

1859 Roberts, Arthur
Mendip annals; or, a narrative of the charitable labours of Hannah and Martha More. Being the journal of Martha More.
London. J Nisbett & Co. First edition.

1785 Yearsley, Ann
Poems on several occasions. Contains the first work by the ‘Bristol Milkwoman’.
London. T Cadell. First edition.

1786 Yearsley, Ann
Poems, on several occasions. Contains the first edition of the indignant ‘Autobiographical Narrative’ of the ‘Bristol Milkwoman’ attacking Hannah More for undue meddling in her life.
London. G G J and J Robinson. Fourth edition.

1850 Hall, Mrs S C
Pilgrimages to English shrines, with notes and illustrations by P W Fairhold F S A.
London. Arthur Hall; and Virtue & Co. First edition.

Cheap Repository Tracts and related items

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nd Thornton, Henry
(1794 A plan for establishing by subscription a repository of cheap or 1795)publications, on religious and moral subjects; which will be sold at a half-penny, or a penny, and a few to exceed two-pence each.
London.

nd Thornton, Henry
(1796)Cheap repository for moral and religious publications.
London.

1795 [HM] Cheap repository tracts for the year 1795, including 30 pamphlets (encompassing 35 titles) and a prospectus for the series.
A bound volume.

(1800) [HM] Cheap repository tracts, including: The Two Wealthy Farmers, or The History of Mr Bragwell, Parts I-VII; The Life of William Baker; The Two Soldiers; Husbandry Moralized; and The General Resurrection, Part 1.
Dublin. William Watson and Son. A bound volume.

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[HM] Cheap repository tracts; entertaining, moral, and religious. Longer tales and some poetry, well suited to the use of boarding schools and private families.
London, Bath. A new edition. One of a series of three volumes first published in 1798.

1800 [HM] Cheap repository shorter tracts. Longer tales and some poetry, well suited to the use of boarding schools and private families.
London, Bath. A new edition. One of a series of three volumes first published in 1798.

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1800 [HM] Cheap repository tracts for Sunday reading. To which are added; some prayers for individuals and for families.
London, Bath. A new edition. One of a series of three volumes first published in 1798.

nd [HM] A volume of miscellaneous tracts with others, entitled 1790s‘Chap Books. Poetry and Prose’. Contains Old Tom Parr, a to earlytrue story (Marshall); The Black Prince, a true story
1800s(J Evans); The Happiness of Britain (Marshall); The Humble Reformer (Marshall); Sweep Soot O! (Marshall) …

[HM] Cheap repository tracts; entertaining, moral and religious consisting of a great variety of separate
performances … for the amusement and instruction of the youth of both sexes.
Boston. E Lincoln. The first Boston, from the latest English edition.

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1817 [HM] Cheap repository shorter tracts.
London, Bath. A new edition. Contains 46 tracts.

nd [HM] Cheap repository tracts, entitled ‘A collection of seven chapbooks’.
(1820s?)London. Bound volume.

1839 [HM] Tales for young persons.
London. T Allman.

1839 [HM] Tales for the common people.
London. Printed for Thomas Tegg.

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1818 [HM] Stories for the middle ranks of society, and tales for the common people.
London. T Cadell and W Davies. 2 vols.

1819 [HM] Cheap repository tracts, suited to the present times.
London. F C and J Rivington. Thought to be reprints of 15 patriotic and political tracts.

Broadsides – a selection
See Detailed Listing of Selected Items, Part 2. (p.95)

Cheap Repository Tracts – unbound

A listing of all unbound Cheap Repository Tracts can be found in the Detailed Listing of Selected Items, Part 2 . (p.97)

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Cheap Repository Tracts
Spinney Serial Nos:
2; 3; 4; 5; 6; 7; 9; 10; 12; 13; 15; 16; 19; 20; 21; 22; 23; 24; 25.

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Cheap Repository Tracts
Spinney Serial Nos:
27; 28; 29; 31; 32; 36; 37; 38; 40; 41; 42; 43; 45; 46; 47; 48; 49; 50; 51; 52; 53.

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Cheap Repository Tracts
Spinney Serial Nos:
54; 55; 56; 57; 58; 59; 60; 61; 62; 63; 64; 65; 66; 67; 68; 69; 70; 71; 72; 73; 74; 75; 76; 77; 78; 79.

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Cheap Repository Tracts
Spinney Serial Nos:
80; 81; 83; 84; 85; 86; 87; 88; 90; 91; 92; 93; 94; 95; 96; 97; 98; 99; 100; 101; 102; 103; 104; 105; 106; 107; 108; 109; 111; 112; 113; 114; 117; 118; 135; 155; 158; 160; 161; 162; 166; 172; 173; 175; 178.
Later editions: 4; 10; 10; 13; 19.

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Cheap Repository Tracts
Spinney Serial Nos: Later Editions:
19; 21; 23; 25; 27; 28; 29; 31; 34; 36; 37; 38; 40; 41; 43; 46; 47; 49; 52; 54; 55; 59; 61; 62; 65; 68; 69.

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Cheap Repository Tracts
Spinney Serial Nos: Later Editions:
71; 77; 80; 84; 85; 88; 90; 93; 99; 100; 101; 104; 105; 107; 108; 126; 178; a selection of uncatalogued titles.

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Cheap Repository Tracts
Spinney Serial Nos: Later Editions: a selection of uncatalogued titles.
Miscellaneous selection of titles.

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