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Cheap Repository Tracts.- More (Hannah) & others. The Sorrows of Yamba; or, the Negro Woman's Lamentation, 12pp., final leaf cropped at fore-edge shaving final letter of catchword, [c.1795]; Babay. A True Story of a Good Negro Woman, 12pp., final leaf cropped at fore-edge with slight loss, [c.1795]; History of the Plague in London in 1665, 24pp., [c.1795]; The Lancashire Collier Girl, 16pp., [c.1795]; Wonderful Escape from Shipwreck. An Account of the Loss of his Majesty's Ship Centaur, 12pp., [c.1795], chapbooks, all with woodcut illustration on first page and some with more in text, a little soiled, some stained at upper edge, disbound, J.Marshall...and R.White, London; S.Hazard, Bath; and 17 other tracts from the series, each preserved in modern paper folder, 12mo (22) ⁂ Collection of moral and religious tracts begun by the evangelical Hannah More in 1795 and continued by her and others for several years. They were extremely popular and over 200 were issued at the cost of 1d, in broadside and/or chapbook form.