The Resource 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.], (electronic resource)

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.], (electronic resource)

Label
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.]
Title
The Cries of London,
Title remainder
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]
Title number
[Part I.-IV.]
Contributor
Engraver
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Member of
Additional physical form
Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Cataloging source
MWA
Citation location within source
  • 8262
  • 8263
  • 249.6
Citation source
  • Shaw & Shoemaker
  • Shaw & Shoemaker
  • Welch, d'A.A. Amer. children's books
Illustrations
illustrations
Index
no index present
Literary form
non fiction
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
Ralph, William
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Johnson, Benjamin
  • Children's poetry
  • Picture books for children
  • Cries
  • Epigrams
  • Occupations
  • Street vendors
  • Child labor
  • City and town life
  • London (England)
Target audience
juvenile
Label
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.], (electronic resource)
Link
Instantiates
Publication
Note
  • Part of the library digital collection of Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819
  • 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
Antecedent source
file reproduced from microform
Color
mixed
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
Control code
000373018
Dimensions
18 cm.
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
4 pts.
File format
multiple file formats
Form of item
electronic
Level of compression
lossless
Other physical details
ill.
Quality assurance targets
absent
Reformatting quality
access
Reproduction note
  • Electronic text and image data.
  • Electronic text and image data.
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(Sirsi) 000373018
Label
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.], (electronic resource)
Link
Publication
Note
  • Part of the library digital collection of Early American Imprints, Series II: Shaw-Shoemaker, 1801-1819
  • 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
Antecedent source
file reproduced from microform
Color
mixed
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
Control code
000373018
Dimensions
18 cm.
Dimensions
unknown
Extent
4 pts.
File format
multiple file formats
Form of item
electronic
Level of compression
lossless
Other physical details
ill.
Quality assurance targets
absent
Reformatting quality
access
Reproduction note
  • Electronic text and image data.
  • Electronic text and image data.
Specific material designation
remote
System control number
(Sirsi) 000373018

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