BANBURY FAIR.
About 1820, many curious Tracts were issued by various Societies with the illustrations which follow. Some of these Tracts relating to Social and Religious questions of that day had been edited by Hannah More and her sister—at “Barley Wood,” near Bath—also by Rowland Hill, the eccentric divine of old Surrey Chapel, and others; these are now quite ephemeral literary productions, notably some on the “Sunday Question.” Several of the following cuts were used contemporary with Timothy Spagg’s (Charles Dickens’s) Sunday Under Three Heads. One of these, an 8vo pamphlet, has on the title, a large woodcut by Thomas Bewick, commencing;—Here we have Bewick, I declare, etc. Many of the original cuts to the Bristol series of Tracts issued from 1805 to 1820 are in this volume.
Cuts used in Educational Tracts written by Hannah More and Mrs.Trimmer, circa 1810. Engraved by Anderson, Thompson, Williams, andothers. | |
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Used on Local Tracts and Juvenile Literature, by Rusher. | |||
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Used on Tracts by Hannah More and Rev. Rowland Hill, circa 1814, andafterwards in Rusher’s Books. | |
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Vignettes by Sears, engraved after Williams and others, and used oncheap Repository Tracts, etc., and books issued from Rusher’spress. | |
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These cuts were used in a series of Tracts published by Chilcott ofBristol. Afterwards by Rusher at Banbury. | |
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Cuts by Sears after Williams, used on Cheap Repository Tracts, and onLocal Banbury Ephemeral Literature. | |
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