A chapbook of Cries, with hand-colored illustrations: The frontispiece shows a street scene in front of John Harris's shop with St. Paul's Cathedral in the background where a fashionable lady and a boy talk to a street-vendor selling goods from his basket. The shop window shows Harris sold medicines as well being a lending library and bookseller. The chapbook includes images and cries of a Georgian street vendors --- chimney sweeps, milkmaids, fish-women, watercress sellers, men making and selling mats and brooms or repairing chairs, sellers of cat and dog meat, swords and standards, nosegays and florists, sellers of live geese and chickens, foods like Banbury cakes or hot gingerbread, potatoes, strawberries, fresh fish, eels, lobsters and flounder, rabbits, matches, and a newspapers, and ending with two watchmen in front of the Watch-House. On the back wrapper is an advertisement for seven other works, "new editions of the following celebrated little works" each priced 1s, 6d.
Alternative Title:
Cries of London and Description of the cries of London
Description:
Title from printed title page., Published with yellow wrappers, the upper cover printed with the title and imprint surrounded by a single fillet border. On the verso: publisher's list of new editions., and With an inscription on flyleaf. For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
John Harris, St. Paul's Church-Yard
Subject (Geographic):
England, London., and London
Subject (Topic):
Cries, Cities and towns, Occupations, Peddlers, Children's poetry, Picture books for children, and Street vendors
A trade card for Thomas Martin, illustrated around the perimeter with tools of his trade including various kinds of knives and a fork, scissors, pocket books, belt buckles, and cocks. Also in three corners are images of a composer seated before type trays, a printer working at his press, and a weaver working his loom
Description:
Title from text in central oval of the design., Title continues: ... where merchants, shopkeepers, &c. may be supplied with a great variety of table knives & forks, razors, scissars [sic], pen & pocket knives, buckles, brass cocks, Japan'd wares, pocket books, books on various subjects, bound or in quires; silk handkerchiefs, velveteens, ... wholesale terms., Text around oval: Birmingham & Sheffield. Wholesale warehaouse., Date of publication based on other works by Martin published from this location. See English short title catalog, nos. T058628 and N66748., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., and For further information, consult library staff.
A trade card for Thomas Sabine, illustrated with tools of the printing trade along the tops and sides and below with three illustrations showing tradesmen at work: at a rolling press, a composer in front of type drawers, and two men working a letter press
Alternative Title:
Thomas Sabine, letterpress and copper plate printer
Description:
Title from item., Date of publication based on Sabine's date probable years of operation at Shoe Lane, before his partnership with his son. See Maxted, I. London book trades 1775-1800, page 197., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Text below title: Gentlemen, tradesmen and others, favouring him with their Commands, may depend on having them executed in the neatest and most expeditious manner. N.B. Copper Plates neatly Engraved and Printed., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Thomas Sabine
Subject (Topic):
Occupations, Printers, Printing, Printing presses, Printmaking equipment, and Typesetting
