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The Merry cries of London city : as they are exhibited every day. : With fifteen prints of living characters. : [Six lines of verse].

Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoBoston : Published by Thomas B. Wait and Co. and Charles Williams. Price 12 1/2 cents, [1812]
Description35 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations ; 15 cm
Supplemental Content Shaw-Shoemaker Digital Edition
Subject(s)
Series Early American imprints. Second series no. 51218. ^A575643
Contents Great news! Extraordinary news! -- Cabbages o! Turnips -- Dust o! dust! -- Dying speeches -- Buy my young water cresses -- Clothes, any old clothes -- Sweep for your soot, o -- Fat ducks, o! -- Buy my live eels -- Sweet china oranges -- Old chairs to mend -- Beer o! -- Ripe scarlet strawberries -- Buy my good matches.
General notePictures with verse and prose descriptions.
General noteRunning title: Cries of London.
General noteDated [1812] by Welch.
General notePages [1] and [36] blank; pasted to printed wrapper.
General note"Children's books, published by Thomas B. Wait and Co. and Charles Williams, Boston."--advertisement, back cover.
References Shaw & Shoemaker 51218
References Shaw & Shoemaker 20725
References Welch, d'A.A. Amer. children's books, 294.14
Other formsMicroform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Reproduction noteElectronic 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. 51218).
Genre/formJuvenile literature 1812.
Genre/formPoems 1812.
Genre/formPublishers' advertisements Massachusetts Boston.
Other titleCries of London.

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