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An oration on the oppression of jailors : which was spoken in the Fleet prison, on the 20th of February 1730/1 (as advertised in the Daily-Post of that day) and carefully taken in short-hand by one of the audience, who hopes he shall not incur the displeasure of the orator in publishing a thing so manifestly tending to the good of the publick
An oration on the oppression of jailors : which was spoken in the Fleet prison, on the 20th of February 1730/1 (as advertised in the Daily-Post of that day) and carefully taken in short-hand by one of the audience, who hopes he shall not incur the displeasure of the orator in publishing a thing so manifestly tending to the good of the publick
Date
1731
Publication Place
London (England)
Publisher
Moore, A., fl. 1721-1747
Description
With a final leaf of advertisements (verso blank).
ESTC (online) N479095.
Head- and tail-piece; initial.
Signatures: A-C⁴.
Frontispiece: Engraved illustration with letterpress verse below, beginning: Unhappy, friendless man! How hard thy fate! / Whose only crime is being unfortunate.
Price following imprint: "Price 6 d."
Date of publication from ESTC.
"Printed for A. Moore, near St. Pa'uls [sic]; and sold at the pamphlet-shops in London and Westminster".
Likely published 1731.
Extent
22, [2] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill.
Dimensions
17 cm (8vo)
Language
English
Topical Subject
Prisons--Great Britain
Prisons
Fleet Prison (London, England)
Geographic Subject
London (England)
England
Great Britain
Genre Subject
Early works to 1800
Associated Entities
Moore, A., fl. 1721-1747
Collection Title
Digital Rare Book Collection
Repository
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Rare Book & Manuscript Library
An oration on the oppression of jailors : which was spoken in the Fleet prison, on the 20th of February 1730/1 (as advertised in the Daily-Post of that day) and carefully taken in short-hand by one of the audience, who hopes he shall not incur the displeasure of the orator in publishing a thing so manifestly tending to the good of the publick
Date
1731
Publication Place
London (England)
Publisher
Moore, A., fl. 1721-1747
Description
With a final leaf of advertisements (verso blank).
ESTC (online) N479095.
Head- and tail-piece; initial.
Signatures: A-C⁴.
Frontispiece: Engraved illustration with letterpress verse below, beginning: Unhappy, friendless man! How hard thy fate! / Whose only crime is being unfortunate.
Price following imprint: "Price 6 d."
Date of publication from ESTC.
"Printed for A. Moore, near St. Pa'uls [sic]; and sold at the pamphlet-shops in London and Westminster".
Likely published 1731.
Extent
22, [2] p., [1] leaf of plates : ill.
Dimensions
17 cm (8vo)
Language
English
Topical Subject
Prisons--Great Britain
Prisons
Fleet Prison (London, England)
Geographic Subject
London (England)
England
Great Britain
Genre Subject
Early works to 1800
Associated Entities
Moore, A., fl. 1721-1747
Collection Title
Digital Rare Book Collection
Repository
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Rare Book & Manuscript Library
