The execution of Wild Robert
Subtitle: Being a warning to all parents
Publisher: Sold by J. Marshall (printer to the Cheap Repository for moral and religious tracts) No. 17, Queen-street, Cheapside, and No. 4, Aldermary Church-Yard, and R. White, Piccadilly, London.; By S. Hazard, printer to the Cheap Repository, at Bath; and by all booksellers, newsmen, and hawkers in town and country
Published: 1795
Place of publication: London
Language: eng
Subjects: Executions and executioners; Early works to 1800; Poetry; Warnings
Other titles: Cheap Repository
Notes: Text printed in two columns, all within a border of type ornaments (except price, printed below the border).

At head of border: "Cheap Repository."

Verses begin: "Wild Robert was a graceless youth,".

Below text and above imprint: "[Entered at Stationers Hall.]"

"Great allowance to shopkeepers and hawkers."

"Price an halfpenny, or 2s, 3d. per 100. -1s. 3d. for 50. -9d. for 25."

Entered in the Stationers' Register 25 May 1795.

The first line of stanza 22 ends "cord". Variant in some copies: "crod".

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English Short Title Catalog, T33758