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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]. [Part I.-IV.].

Other author/creatorRalph, William, engraver.
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoPhiladelphia : Printed for Benjamin Johnson, Jacob Johnson, and Robert Johnson, 1805.
Description4 parts : illustrations ; 18 cm
Supplemental Content Shaw-Shoemaker Digital Edition
Supplemental Content Shaw-Shoemaker Digital Edition
Subject(s)
Series Early American imprints. Second series no. 8263. ^A575643
Incomplete content 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.
General notePart 1: 40, [2] p.; pt. 3: 36, [2] p.; pt. 4: 37, [1]. Page [38] of pt. 4 blank.
General noteMetal-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.
References Shaw & Shoemaker 8262
References Shaw & Shoemaker 8263
References Welch, d'A.A. Amer. children's books, 249.6
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. 8263).
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. 8262).
Genre/formJuvenile literature 1805.
Genre/formPoems 1805.