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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] [Part I.-IV.].
Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819 Available online
Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819 Available online
Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819- Format:
- Book
- Series:
- Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 8263.
- Early American imprints. Second series ; no. 8262.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Johnson, Benjamin, -1822.
- Children's poetry.
- Picture books for children.
- Cries--England--London.
- Cries.
- Street vendors.
- England--London.
- Epigrams.
- Occupations--Juvenile literature.
- Occupations.
- Street vendors--Juvenile literature.
- Child labor.
- City and town life.
- London (England)--Description and travel.
- Genre:
- Juvenile literature -- 1805.
- Poems -- 1805.
- Physical Description:
- 4 parts : illustrations ; 18 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Philadelphia: : Printed for Benjamin Johnson, Jacob Johnson, and Robert Johnson., 1805.
- System Details:
- Mode of access: World Wide Web.
- text file
- Contents:
- A poetical description of the British metropolis
- Knives to grind, razors or scissars to grind?
- Oars, sir? Sculler, sir? Want a boat your honour?
- Buy a duck, buy a fine fat fowl
- Fine China oranges
- Sand ho!
- One a penny, two a penny, hot cross buns
- Chairs to mend
- Any old clothes?
- Cat's meat, dog's meat
- Sweep! Sweep!
- Cherries three-pence a pound
- Milk below
- 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
- New mackarel
- Three a penny, oysters
- Will you buy a roasting-jack?
- Muffins, crumpets!
- Sprats as big as herrings! Sprats all alive, ho!
- Fine flowers, Madam
- Shoe-strings, a penny a pair
- Apples all bot, and ready roasted
- Buy my 'live geese; Geese all alive ho!
- Rare green gooseberries; a penny a pint, gooseberries
- Green and large cucumbers.
- Notes:
- Part 1: 40, [2] p.; pt. 3: 36, [2] p.; pt. 4: 37, [1]. Page [38] of pt. 4 blank.
- Metal-engraved plates are included in pagination. Some plates are signed: W.R. [William Ralph]. Metal engraving of Benjamin Johnson's bookstore appears in pt. 1, leaf following p. 4.
- 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. 8263).
- 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. 8262).
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license.
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