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The Cries of London : as they are daily exhibited in the streets; with an epigram in verse, adapted to each. : Embellished with elegant characteristic engravings. : [Three lines of verse].
Shaw-Shoemaker Digital Edition 28246. Connect to full text. Available online
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- Book
- Series:
- Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 28246.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Children's poetry.
- Picture books for children.
- Epigrams.
- Cries--England--London.
- Cries.
- Street vendors.
- England--London.
- Occupations--Juvenile literature.
- Occupations.
- Street vendors--Juvenile literature.
- City and town life.
- London (England)--Description and travel.
- London (England).
- Genre:
- Juvenile literature -- 1813.
- Poems -- 1813.
- Publishers' advertisements -- Pennsylvania -- Philadelphia.
- Physical Description:
- 36 pages, 2 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 17 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia: : Printed for Benjamin Johnson, no. 22, North Second Street, and Johnson and Warner, no. 147, Market Street., 1813.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Contents:
- Hot spice gingerbread, smoking hot
- Sixpence a pound, rare ripe filberts
- Buy a lobster: buy a'live lobster
- White conduit loaves
- Come buy my jemmies, my pretty little tartars
- New potatoes, three pounds for two-pence
- Young lambs to sell ...
- New almanacks, new; some lies, and some true
- Any work for the tinker?
- Rabbit, a fine rabbit
- Buy a mat, or a hair broom
- Past eleven o'clock.
- Notes:
- Cover imprint varies: Philadelphia: Published by Benjamin Johnson, no. 22, North Second Street. 1813. Part III.
- Despite the statement on the cover, text and illustrations are those of Part II.
- Pagination includes metal-engraved plates. Some plates signed: W.R. [William Ralph].
- "Just published by Benjamin Johnson ..."--advertisement, back cover.
- Electronic text and image data. [Chester, Vt. : Readex, a division of Newsbank, Inc., 2004-2007] Includes files in TIFF, GIF and PDF formats with inclusion of keyword searchable text. (Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 28246).
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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