Busby's street scenes : images of street hawkers and criers in 19th-century London and Paris / by Thomas Lord Busby ; with a foreword by Henry Morris.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Busby, Thomas Lord, author.

Contributor:

• Morris, Henry, 1925-2019, writer of foreword..
• Bird & Bull Press, publisher, printer.
• ArjoWiggins (Firm), papermaker.
• Jean-François Vilain and Roger S. Wieck Collection of Private Presses, Ephemera, & Related References (University of Pennsylvania)

Standardized Title:

• Cries of London drawn from life

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Cries--England--London--Pictorial works.
• Costume--England--London--History--19th century--Pictorial works.
• Costume--France--Paris--History--19th century--Pictorial works.
• Costume.
• Cries.
• England--London.
• France--Paris.

Genre:

• History.
• Pictorial works.
• Private press books (Printing)
• Printing in multiple colors (Printing)
• Limitation statements (Publishing)
• Deckled edges (Paper)
• Mould-made papers (Paper)
• Case bindings (Binding)
• Untrimmed edges (Binding)
• Book prospectuses.
• Illustrated works.

Penn Provenance:

• Vilain, Jean-François, 1942- (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)
• Wieck, Roger S. (donor) (Vilain-Wieck Collection copy)

Physical Description:

22, [6] pages, [1] folded leaf of plates, [80] pages of color plates : color illustrations, facsimiles ; 23 cm

Manufacture:

[Newtown, Pennsylvania] : Printed at Bird & Bull Press, in December 2012.

Other Title:

Images of street hawkers and criers in 19th-century London and Paris

Place of Publication:

Newtown : Bird & Bull Press, 2013.

Summary:

Reproduces two pictorial works by Thomas Lord Busby, The cries of London, drawn from life ; and, Costume of the lower orders in Paris.

Notes:

• "The text of Busby's street scenes is printed on Arches mould-made paper and bound in Japanese cloth with pasted front label, in the chap-book style ... [I]t is now time to end my 55-year journey with Bird & Bull Press. So this is my last book"--Publisher's prospectus.
• "120 copies printed at Bird & Bull Press in December 2012"--Colophon.
• Title in black and red.
• Deckled edges (fore- and tail edges untrimmed).

Local Notes:

• Kislak Center Vilain-Wieck Collection of Private Presses copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2013 by Jean-François Vilain and Roger Wieck.
• Vilain-Wieck Collection copy: publisher's prospectus laid in.

Contains:

Busby, Thomas Lord. Costume of the lower orders in Paris.

OCLC:

836817565