The Cries of London
Subtitle: 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.]
Series: Early American imprints -- no. 8263; Early American imprints -- no. 8262
Publisher: Printed for Benjamin Johnson, Jacob Johnson, and Robert Johnson.
Published: 1805
Place of publication: Philadelphia
Language: eng
Subjects: Children's poetry; Picture books for children; Cries; Epigrams; Occupations; Juvenile literature; Street vendors; Child labor; City and town life; Description and travel
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.

Shaw & Shoemaker 8262

Shaw & Shoemaker 8263

Welch, d'A.A. Amer. children's books, 249.6

Microform version available in the Readex Early American Imprints series.
Table of contents: title: A poetical description of the British metropolis; title: Knives to grind, razors or scissars to grind?; title: Oars, sir? Sculler, sir? Want a boat your honour?; title: Buy a duck, buy a fine fat fowl; title: Fine China oranges; title: Sand ho!; title: One a penny, two a penny, hot cross buns; title: Chairs to mend; title: Any old clothes?; title: Cat's meat, dog's meat; title: Sweep! Sweep!; title: Cherries three-pence a pound; title: Milk below; title: Hot spice gingerbread, smoking hot; title: Sixpence a pound, rare ripe filberts; title: Buy a lobster: buy a live lobster; title: White conduit loaves; title: Come buy my jemmies, my pretty little tartars; title: New potatoes, three pounds for two-pence; title: Young lambs to sell ...; title: New almanacks new; some lies, and some true; title: Any work for the tinker?; title: Rabbit, a fine rabbit; title: Buy a mat, or a hair-broom; title: Past eleven o'clock; title: New mackarel; title: Three a penny, oysters; title: Will you buy a roasting-jack?; title: Muffins, crumpets!; title: Sprats as big as herrings! Sprats all alive, ho!; title: Fine flowers, Madam; title: Shoe-strings, a penny a pair; title: Apples all bot, and ready roasted; title: Buy my 'live geese; Geese all alive ho!; title: Rare green gooseberries; a penny a pint, gooseberries; title: Green and large cucumbers.