Price: £500
Subject: History
Published Date: 1820
Stock Number: 53944
Hart (Moses)
The life of...
shewing his arrival at a Foundling-School, his occupations there, his departure from there to Ackworth School in Yorkshire, from thence to York, where he was put an apprentice to a bread-baker, his hardships during his apprenticeship, and the various vicissitudes he has hitherto encountered.
Description: FIRST EDITION, oval woodcut portrait frontispiece, 1 woodcut illustration in the text, minor spotting, pp. [vi, including frontispiece], 51, 12mo, disbound, goodPublication Details: York: Printed by by T. Weightman, 1820
Notes: The frontispiece shows Hart at the age of 70. His story is one of industry, loyalty and doggedness - and bad masters, accidents, and ill luck: a detailed, and rather terrifying, picture of rural poverty. The only copy recorded in COPAC is at York Minster, none in WorldCat. The booklet was published in the hope of raising some subscription, so that he would not be thrown upon the mercies of 'parochial munificence'.
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