Title: The Cries of London, as they are daily exhibited in the streets
Authors: Ralph, William,
Date: 1805
Publisher: Printed for Benjamin Johnson, Jacob Johnson, and Robert Johnson.,
Physical description: 37 p., [23] leaves of plates : ill.
Language: English
LC classification: A
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.
Notes: 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.
Subject headings (LCSH): Child labor; Children's poetry; City and town life; Cries--England--London; Epigrams; Johnson, Benjamin, -1822.; London (England)--Cries.; London (England)--Description and travel.; Occupations--Juvenile literature; Picture books for children.; Street vendors--Juvenile literature.