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The cryes of the city of London drawne after the life, in 74 copper plates = Les cris de la ville de Londres dessignez apres la nature = L'arti com[m]uni che uanno [per] Londra fatte dal naturale / P. Tempest excudit ...
Kislak Center for Special Collections - Rare Book Collection Folio DA688 .L37 1711
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Laroon, Marcellus, 1653-1702.
- Language:
- English
- French
- Italian
- Subjects (All):
- Cries--England--London.
- Cries.
- England--London.
- London (England)--Social life and customs--Illustrations.
- London (England).
- Genre:
- Pictures.
- Penn Provenance:
- Albert, Daniel M. (donor) (Albert Collection copy)
- Albert, Eleanor (donor) (Albert Collection copy)
- St. George, Henri Auguste de (autograph) (Albert Collection copy)
- Physical Description:
- 74 leaves of plates ; 32 cm (folio)
- Other Title:
- Cryes of the city of London drawne after the life
- Cris de la ville de Londres dessignez apres la nature
- Arti com[m]uni che uanno [per] Londra fatte dal naturale
- Place of Publication:
- London : Printed & sold by Henry Overton ..., 1711.
- Language Note:
- Captions in English, French, and Italian.
- Notes:
- Place of printing appears after printer's name in imprint.
- First edition 1688. In the present edition some of the plates have been altered to bring he costume into the fashion of the time of republication. Cf. A.W. Tuer, Old London street cries (1885), p. 7.
- Seventy-four plates, including 2 engraved title leaves (plates 1 and 37) after M. Lauron (Laroon). The plates were probably engraved by John Savage; some authorities, however, attribute part of the engraving to Laroon or to Tempest. Cf. Dict. nat. biog., Bryan's Dict. of painters and engravers, etc.
- Local Notes:
- Albert Collection copy has modern ms. bibliographical note in pencil on front pastedown.
- Albert Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Dr. Daniel and Eleanor Albert.
- Albert Collection copy has autograph of Henri Auguste de St. George on front pastedown.
- Albert Collection copy: plate no. 51 hand-colored.
- Albert Collection copy bound in full blind-tooled calf(?); 6 raised bands on spine; gold-tooled cover edges; all edges stippled red.
- OCLC:
- 9821366
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