page_title: Cheap Repository Tracts
section_title: Watson Dublin Series (1796-1800)
hierarchical_section_title: Cheap Repository Tracts / Publication / Watson Dublin Series (1796-1800)
caption_attribution_description: English: The Cheap Repository Tract, the Black Prince, published by John Evans in 1798.
context_page_description: The Cheap Repository Tracts consisted of more than two hundred moral, religious and occasionally political tracts issued in a number of series between March 1795 and 1817, and subsequently re-issued in various collected editions until the 1830s. They were devised by Hannah More and intended for sale or distribution to literate poor people, as an alternative to what she regarded as the immoral traditional broadside ballad and chapbook publications. The tracts proved to be enormously successful with more than two million copies sold or distributed during the first year of the scheme.
context_section_description: Early in 1796 William Watson, 'Printer of the Association for Discountenancing Vice and Promoting the Knowledge and Practice of Religion and Virtue,’ of 7 Capel Street Dublin was also appointed ‘Printer to the Cheap Repository’ in Ireland and permitted to reprint the titles. Most of the Irish tracts were reprints of the English equivalents although a few were given new titles. Watson continued to re-issue tracts until his death in 1805, when he was succeeded by his son, also named William Watson (d.1818). He was succeeded by his widow Ann Watson who continued to issue the tracts well into the 1820s.
caption: The Black Prince, printed by John Evans in 1798.
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