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]. - ECU Libraries Catalog

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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].

Other author/creator	Ralph, William, engraver.
Format	Electronic and Book
Publication Info	Philadelphia : Printed for Benjamin Johnson, No. 22, North Second Street, and Johnson and Warner, No. 147, Market Street, 1813.
Description	4 volumes : illustrations ; 17 cm
Supplemental Content	Shaw-Shoemaker Digital Edition
Subject(s)	Johnson, Benjamin, -1822. Children's poetry. Picture books for children. Epigrams. Cries--England --London. Occupations--Juvenile literature. Street vendors--Juvenile literature. City and town life. London (England)--Description and travel.

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Series	Early American imprints. Second series no. 28245. ^A575643
Incomplete content	A poetical description of the British metropolis -- 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 hot, and ready roasted -- Buy my 'live geese; geese all alive ho! -- Rare green gooseberries; a penny a pint, gooseberries -- Green and large cucumbers -- 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 -- Buy a mat, or a hair broom -- Past eleven o'clock -- Do you want any good matches? -- Singing birds -- Buy my live plaice or flounders -- Gingerbread nuts ... -- Scarlet strawberries -- Green hastings -- Fine images -- Any work for the cooper? -- A groat a pound, eels -- Come buy my water cresses.
General note	Cover imprint varies: Philadelphia: Published by Johnson & Warner, no. 147, Market Street. 1813. Part I[-IV].
General note	Part 1: 4, [2], 5-6, [2], 7-37, [1] p.; part 2: 36 p.; part 3: 41, [1] p.; part 4: 36, [2] p.
General note	Metal-engraved plates are included in pagination. Some plates are signed: W.R. [i.e., William Ralph]. An engraving of Benjamin Johnson's bookstore appears in part 1, on the leaf following p. 4.
General note	"Just published, by Johnson and Warner ..."--advertisement, back cover, pts. I and IV.
References	Shaw & Shoemaker 28245
References	Welch, d'A.A. Amer. children's books, 249.16
Other forms	Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Reproduction note	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. 28245).
Genre/form	Juvenile literature 1813.
Genre/form	Poems 1813.
Genre/form	Publishers' advertisements Pennsylvania Philadelphia.

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