Title from item., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum. Division I, political and personal satires., Temporary local subject terms: Street criers -- Trades: bellows mender., and Watermark.
Publisher:
Publd. as the act directs, Apr. 28, 1772, by Picot & Delattre in St. Martin's Lane
Engraved title page., Date of publication transposed following place of publication., With original marble wrappers on printed sheet and a front label: Cries of Edinburgh (Plain.) Price sixpence., and For further information, consult library staff.
Publisher:
Sold by L. Scott, bookseller end of College Drummond Street
"Poor man on crutches cries out his song in the street during a thunderstorm."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication inferred from similar prints after Joe Lisle that were published by Berthoud & Son in 1828. Cf. No. 15624 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 11., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., For a later state published in 1830 by S. Gans, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1993,1107.43., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Handicapped., 1 print : aquatint and etching, hand-colored ; sheet 310 x 235 mm., and Sheet trimmed within plate mark with loss of imprint from bottom edge.
"Poor man on crutches cries out his song in the street during a thunderstorm."--British Museum online catalogue, description of a later state
Description:
Title etched below image., Date of publication inferred from similar prints after Joe Lisle that were published by Berthoud & Son in 1828. Cf. No. 15624 in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum, v. 11., Sheet trimmed within plate mark., For a later state published in 1830 by S. Gans, see British Museum online catalogue, registration no.: 1993,1107.43., Not in the Catalogue of prints and drawings in the British Museum., and Temporary local Medical Library subject terms: Handicapped.
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 young woman smiling, with her head and shoulders slightly turned to right and her loose shirt open showing left breast, carries a basket of shrimps on her head
Description:
Title etched below image., Identified as the "third state" in British Museum online catalogue. See Registration number: Cc,1.186., Sheet trimmed to plate mark., Ms. note in pencil in Steevens's hand above print: Mr. Nichols's Bookd 3d edit. p. 411., and On page 218 in volume 3.
Publisher:
Publish'd March 25th 1782 by Jane Hogarth & Rd. Livesay, Leicester Fields
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