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Description of the plates, representing the itinerant traders of London in their ordinary costume : with notices of the remarkable places given in the background.
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection DA688 .C72 1804 copy 2
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Craig, William Marshall, 1763 or 1764-1829.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Cries.
- London (England)--Social life and customs--19th century.
- London (England).
- Cries--England--London--Pictorial works.
- Peddlers--England--London--Pictorial works.
- Peddlers.
- Peddling--England--London--Pictorial works.
- Peddling.
- England--London.
- Genre:
- Pictorial works.
- Illustrated works.
- Penn Provenance:
- Albert, Daniel M. (donor) (Albert Collection copy 1 & 2)
- Albert, Eleanor (donor) (Albert Collection copy 1 & 2)
- Physical Description:
- 31 unnumbered leaves, 31 unnumbered leaves of plates : color illustrations ; 27 cm
- Place of Publication:
- [London] : [Published by Richard Phillips], [1804]
- Notes:
- Four plates signed: Drawn by Craig.
- Imprint from plates.
- Each plate hand-colored and accompanied by leaf of descriptive letterpress.
- Originally issued to accompany R. Phillips's Modern London, being the history and present state of the British metropolis.
- Local Notes:
- Albert Collection copies 1 and 2 presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Dr. Daniel and Eleanor Albert.
- Albert Collection copy 1 bound by Lloyd of London (with his stamp on verso of front free endpaper) in full calf; boards triple ruled in blind with a small floral ornament in each corner; 5 raised, gold-tooled bands on spine; gold-tooled spine panels; gold-stamped red leather spine label ("THE ITINERANT TRADERS OF LONDON"); gold-ruled cover edges; gold-tooled turn-ins; marbled endpapers; all edges gilt.
- Albert Collection copy 2 has ms. note on publication in pencil on title leaf.
- Albert Collection copy 2 bound by Zaehnsdorf (with its stamp in gold in tail turn-in of left board) in full red leather; boards double-ruled in gold with a small floral ornament at each corner; 5 raised, gold-tooled bands on spine; gold-tooled spine panels; title ("ITINERANT TRADERS OF LONDON") stamped in gold on spine; gold-tooled cover edges and turn-ins; marbled endpapers; all edges gilt.
- OCLC:
- 25065252
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