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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/creatorRalph, William, engraver.
Format Electronic and Book
Publication InfoPhiladelphia : Printed for Benjamin Johnson, Jacob Johnson, and Robert Johnson, 1805.
Description4 unnumbered pages, 7-37 pages, 3 unnumbered pages : illustrations ; 17 cm
Supplemental Content Shaw-Shoemaker Digital Edition
Subject(s)
Series Early American imprints. Second series no. 8262. ^A575643
Contents 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 IV of The cries of London. One copy in hand has cover title, on printed paper label: London cries. Part 4.
General notePagination includes [12] leaves of metal-engraved plates; twelfth plate (an engraving of St. Paul's Cathedral, with Benjamin Johnson's bookstore in the foreground) counts as p. [40].
General noteEngravings attributed to William Ralph by Welch.
References Shaw & Shoemaker 8262
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. 8262).
Genre/formJuvenile literature 1805.
Genre/formPoems 1805.
Other titleLondon cries.

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