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A new Christmas tract, or, The right way of rejoicing at Christmas : shewing the reasons we have for joy at the event of our Saviour's birth : in which also a description is given of the dreadful state the world was in before his coming : with some remarks suited to the times in which we live

by: Lee, John,d. 1804.egr; Hatchard, John,1768-1849.prt; Hazard, Samuel,d. 1806.prt; Howard & Evans.prt

Publication date: 1801

Topics: Christmas -- Meditations., Chapbooks -- Specimens., Chapbooks -- England -- London -- 19th century, McGill University Library Digitized Title, McGill Library's Chapbook Collection, Jesus Christ, Christmas, Chapbooks

Publisher: London : Sold by Howard and Evans, (printers to the Cheap Repository for Moral and Religious Tracts,) No. 41 and 42, Long-Lane, West-Smithfield : And J. Hatchard, No. 190, Piccadilly ; Bath : By S. Hazard : And by all Booksellers, newsmen, and hawkers, in town and country

Collection: mcgilluniversitychapbook; mcgilluniversity; toronto

Contributor: McGill University Library

Language: English

Item Size: 17.8M

16 p. ; 18 x 12 cm.

Approximate date from Brown, P. London publishers and printers c.1800-1870

At head of title: Cheap Repository

A "Sunday reading."

Caption title: A new Christmas tract, &c

Woodcut: title-page vignette, signed Lee (i.e. John Lee)

36-line poem, "A Christmas hymn," begins on p. 15

First sentence: "There are two ways of keeping Christmas: some seem to keep it much in the same way in which the unbelieving Jews kept their feast in honour of the calf which they had made."

Includes 1 woodcut

Copy in McGill Library Rare Books and Special Collections: bound with: The two wealthy farmers, or, The history of Mr. Bragwell : in seven parts. London : Sold by Howard and Evans ..., [between 1801 and 1811]. Bound together subsequent to publication with 47 other chapbooks, with binder's title: Repository of Moral & Religious Tracts. Bound in brown sheep over boards

Addeddate: 2014-02-13 21:08:12

Callnumber: RBD CHILD PN970 H69 T9 1801 Rare Books/Special Collections - Children's Collection (McLennan Bldg, 4th floor)

Identifier: McGillLibrary-PN970_H69_T9_1801_003514380-1612

Identifier-ark: ark:/13960/t7np4mv72

Note: Approximate date from Brown, P. London publishers and printers c.1800-1870.
At head of title: Cheap Repository.
A "Sunday reading."
Caption title: A new Christmas tract, &c.
Woodcut: title-page vignette, signed Lee (i.e. John Lee).
36-line poem, "A Christmas hymn," begins on p. 15.
First sentence: "There are two ways of keeping Christmas: some seem to keep it much in the same way in which the unbelieving Jews kept their feast in honour of the calf which they had made."
Includes 1 woodcut.
Copy in McGill Library Rare Books and Special Collections: bound with: The two wealthy farmers, or, The history of Mr. Bragwell : in seven parts. London : Sold by Howard and Evans ..., [between 1801 and 1811]. Bound together subsequent to publication with 47 other chapbooks, with binder's title: Repository of Moral & Religious Tracts. Bound in brown sheep over boards.