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The Merry cries of London city : as they are exhibited every day. : With fifteen prints of living characters. : [Six lines of verse].
Shaw-Shoemaker Digital Edition 51218. Connect to full text. Available online
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- Book
- Series:
- Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 51218.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Children's poetry.
- Picture books for children.
- 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 -- 1812.
- Poems -- 1812.
- Publishers' advertisements -- Massachusetts -- Boston.
- Physical Description:
- 35 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations ; 15 cm
- Other Title:
- Cries of London.
- Place of Publication:
- Boston: : Published by Thomas B. Wait and Co. and Charles Williams. Price 12 1/2 cents., [1812]
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Contents:
- Great news! Extraordinary news!
- Cabbages o! Turnips
- Dust o! dust!
- Dying speeches
- Buy my young water cresses
- Clothes, any old clothes
- Sweep for your soot, o
- Fat ducks, o!
- Buy my live eels
- Sweet china oranges
- Old chairs to mend
- Beer o!
- Ripe scarlet strawberries
- Buy my good matches.
- Notes:
- Pictures with verse and prose descriptions.
- Running title: Cries of London.
- Dated [1812] by Welch.
- Pages [1] and [36] blank; pasted to printed wrapper.
- "Children's books, published by Thomas B. Wait and Co. and Charles Williams, Boston."--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. 51218).
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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