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
Brown paper wrappers with printed title from upper cover within ornamental border. List of "penny books printed and sold by J. Kendrew, Colliergate, York", on lower cover., "Decorated with wood-cuts from life.", Colophon: "Printed and sold by J. Kendrew, Colliergate.", Cries accompanied by woodcuts and rhymes., Illustrated with woodcuts., Undated. Dated from examination of materials and styles., and For further information, consult library staff.
Cries of the city of London drawn after the life, Cris de la ville de Londres dessignez apres la nature, Arti communi che uanno per Londra fatte dal naturale, and Tempests cryes of London
Description:
All engraved. Includes two t.-p., Title-pages and captions in English, French, and Italian; the second t.-p. is not dated., Place of publication follows publisher's address., Date altered in plate from 1711 to 1733., Plates, including t.p., are signed: M. Lauron delin: P. Tempest exc. ML form a monogram., Probably engraved by John Savage (cf. pl. 71) though sometimes the engraving is attributed to Tempest or to Laroon., First ed. 1688 (50 pl.); 2d ed. 1711 (74 pl.), Plates 33, 67, 72 are wanting; duplicates of plates 26, 23, 68, laid in., Unidentified manuscript notes and numbers (in another hand) on versos of many of the hinged plates, giving detailed histories of the people depicted., and A made-up copy, formerly owned by Sir William Augustus Fraser and by C.W. Dyson Perrins. Some of the prints may have belonged to J. Gulston. Each plate bears Fraser's stamp.
Publisher:
Printed & sold by Henry Overton at the White Horse without Newgate
Subject (Geographic):
England, London, and London (England)
Subject (Topic):
Cries, Peddlers, Social life and customs, and Street vendors
